Re: BUILD_DEPENDS

[joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 09:26:55PM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
>  >> From documentation I didn't understand what kind of software
>  >> can be mentioned in USE_TOOLS?
>  >> autoconf, gmake? Fine.
>  >> What about
>  >> USE_TOOLS += I_am_the_only_person_who_knows_about_this_rarely_used_tool?
>  >> I.e. how many tools (and what exactly) can be mentioned in USE_TOOLS?
> 
> > The tools framework allows easy overriding of builtin tools, path names
> > etc. It is also handy to simplify *_DEPENDS. It doesn't apply for
> > anything.
> I guessed about this. But I still need a full list of supported tool.
> mk/replace.mk? What if I write
> USE_TOOLS += gm4?
> Will it work under NetBSD (where it external and is named gm4)
> and under Linux (GNU version in most distributions)?

Yes. That's the intended purpose. The platform tools.$PLATFORM.mk is
responsible for specifying what is available or not.

> Is it possible to tell "I need POSIX compatible <program>".
> On some systems, for example, awk == oawk.

Common assumption is awk == oawk, which works fine most of the time. If
it doesn't on a specific platform, those normally request gawk.
The reference should of course be the one-true-awk :-)

> There is no pkgsrc package for bzlib.

archives/bzip2.

Joerg


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