Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/math/R

[David Holland <dholland-pkgchanges%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 09:23:37PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 >  > > ===> Creating toolchain wrappers for R-2.15.1
 >  > > ERROR: g95>=0.91 is not installed; can't buildlink files.
 >  > > 
 >  > > which isn't supposed to happen at all, but especially not with pbulk.
 >  > 
 >  > It means that some buildlink3.mk files pulls it in indirectly and the
 >  > corresponding package itself doesn't depend on g95.
 > 
 > ...no it doesn't, it means that it thinks it confirmed g95>=0.91
 > during do-depends, but when it went to buildlink it, it wasn't
 > actually there. Normally this is caused by having an out-of-date build
 > dir containing e.g. g95-0.90, so when pkgsrc goes to install g95>=0.91
 > it actually installs 0.90 instead. But this should not be possible
 > with pbulk.

Is what you mean: it can happen building package P, if P depends only
indirectly on Q but none of the direct depends of P cause Q to be
installed? Because I don't think that's true; in that case it should
attempt to build Q from ../../examples/Q inside pbulk and fail in
depends.

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David A. Holland
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