Re: dependencies question

[Julian Leyh <oenone@oenone.de>]

Marco S Hyman <marc@snafu.org> wrote:
> If port A is dependent upon port B and port B is only for arch ARCH,
> shouldn't port A also be only for ARCH?   Example:

i once got this answer from Mathieu Sauve-Frankel <msf@kisoku.net>:
> You've set NOT_FOR_ARCHS= ${NO_SHARED_ARCHS} for a port that contains
> no shared objects. I think you've done this because one of the
> dependencies does use objects. I discussed this with Nikolay and I
> think we came to the conclusion that it was preferable to let the
> build fail on the dependency so the user would now exactly why and
> where the port won't work.

cu
JRL

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