Re: pkg_create fails for math/pari

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

Hi!

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 04:48:34PM -0800, Iain Morgan wrote:
> While trying to install math/pari, pkg_create fails with the following
> message:
> 
> => Automatic manual page handling
> pkg_create: can't stat 
> `/u/imorgan/work/math/pari/work/.destdir/u/imorgan/pkg/lib/libpari-gmp.la'
> => Creating binary package 
> /u/imorgan/work/math/pari/work/.packages/pari-2.3.5nb13.tgz
> pkg_create: can't stat 
> `/u/imorgan/work/math/pari/work/.destdir/u/imorgan/pkg/lib/libpari-gmp.la'
> pkg_create: lstat failed for file lib/libpari-gmp.la: No such file or 
> directory
> *** Error code 2
> 
> It turns out that while gmp is enabled as a default option for math/pari,
> it is not actually listed as a dependency. Thus, if devel/gmp is not
> already installed, libpari-gmp.la will not be created and pkg_create will
> fail.

I don't understand what you're saying.

The pari package has an optional gmp dependency. When it is enabled,
gmp is installed and added as dependency, when not, it isn't.

What exactly are you doing?
 Thomas