Re: cups: circular dependency with 'gs' option set

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 06:30:52PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> When trying to build cups on a system with no other packages installed,
> with the 'gs' option set, I got this:
> 
>       => Returning to build of ghostscript-8.64nb3
>       => Full dependency perl>=5.0: found perl-5.10.0nb6
>       => Full dependency libX11>=1.1: found libX11-1.2.1
>       => Full dependency libXt>=1.0.0: found libXt-1.0.5nb1
>       => Full dependency libXext>=0.99.0: found libXext-1.0.5nb1
>       => Full dependency cups>=1.2.12nb3: NOT found
>       => Verifying package clean for ../../print/cups
>       ERROR: This package has set PKG_FAIL_REASON:
>       ERROR: Circular dependency detected
>       *** Error code 1
> 
>       Stop.
>       make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/print/cups
>       *** Error code 1
> 
>       Stop.
>       make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/print/ghostscript
>       *** Error code 1
> 
>       Stop.
>       make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/print/cups
> 
> 
> I confess I'm surprised that ghostscript depends on cups at all.  (I have
> cups set as a global option.)

You can currently either use the gs option for cups or the cups
option.
gs for cups is used for pstopdf (or pdftops, I forget). I don't know
about the other way round.

But there is no check for this. Feel free to add one or improve the
situation somehow else...
 Thomas