Subject: Re: either or DEPENDS?
To: Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/23/1998 12:32:20
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Christoph Badura wrote:

: root@garbled.net (Tim Rightnour) writes:
: >.if !exists(/usr/bin/f77)
: >DEPENDS+= f2c
: >.endif
: 
: That is fine for the pkg Makefile but doesn't DTRT for the binary pkg.

Why not (other than properly changing that DEPENDS to a BUILD_DEPENDS)?  
This DTRT in my eyes, as a system with egcs has the libg2c runtime necessary
to support its executables.  A system without egcs won't be able to install
a binary pkg built by it.

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