Subject: Re: turn off buildlinking and USE_X11 and tools not needed for
To: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/05/2005 11:00:15
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Juan RP wrote:

> On Thu, 5 May 2005 18:40:53 +0200
> Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 5 May 2005 08:49:13 -0700 (PDT)
> > "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Building print/teTeX failed on my system because it had USE_X11 and I am
> > > using Xorg and the builtin.mk files are skipped -- as noted in PR
> > > PR/29907.
> > >
> > > Anyways, why would a meta-pkg, like print/teTeX, follow the buildlinking
> > > in the first place if not doing a build? How can the buildlinking be
> > > turned off?
> >
> > Before buildlink3 was enabled by default, we could use NO_BUILDLINK,
> > I don't know which option is used for this now... if there isn't one, we
> > should add one.
>
> NO_BUILD disables buildlink3.

That's what I though. But ...

pkgsrc/print/teTeX still followed some buildlinking because it wanted
libiconv. Note that I already had all prerequisites installed.

Maybe the USE_X11 turns buildlinking back on?

 Jeremy C. Reed

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