Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/math/R

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 09:28:41PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> 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 Normally this is caused by having an out-of-date build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.

A includes B/b3.mk. B/b3.mk includes C/b3.mk, but B itself doesn't.
C is an indirect dependency of A, which will not be installed during
bulk builds at this point unless something else pulled it in.

Joerg