Re: pkg_comp: Dealing with tacit build dependencies

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

Am 11.07.2022 um 22:17 schrieb Jonathan Perkin:
> * On 2022-07-11 at 20:01 BST, Mayuresh wrote:
> > => Bootstrap dependency digest>=20211023: NOT found
> > => Verifying /nonexistent for ../../pkgtools/digest
> > bmake[1]: don't know how to make /nonexistent. Stop
>
> I've often thought that /nonexistent probably isn't helpful here, we
> should rename it /something-is-broken-you-need-to-investigate or similar.

Yes please, this allows us to document possible causes in the pkgsrc guide.

If we were to document that "/nonexistent" can mean many different
things, none of which really expects /nonexistent to exist, that would
sound plain silly.

Roland