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Re: [PATCH cygport 1/3] Pass DEPEND through to .hint for source package as build-depends:


On 2017-05-06 05:03, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 05/05/2017 21:42, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>> On 2017-05-02 08:13, Jon Turney wrote:
>>> Converting a dependency atom to a package name with full generality
>>> requires
>>> a database of all the pathnames contained in all packages, so we don't
>>> even
>>> try to do that here, leaving that task for downstream processing of the
>>> .hint file...
>> Or should we just replace DEPEND, which allowed atoms which are
>> unsupported by setup and whose name is confusing wrt REQUIRES, with a
>> BUILDREQUIRES variable which is package-name only?
> Changing the name to something less confusing seems like a good
> idea.
> I kind of like the current scheme, as it can do some checks when
> cross-compiling as well.
> I think that something (calm?) needs to keep a database of all
> package pathnames, to check for pathname collisions between packages
> (I suspect we have some unnoticed cases of that at the moment), so
> the extra cost of doing a conversion from cygport dependency atoms in
> a .hint to package names in setup.ini shouldn't be too much. It'll be
> a while before that happens, though... :)
> People also like to typo this as DEPENDS, so some sort of warning
> that the .cygport sets a variable which has no effect might also be
> useful.

Append to DEPEND with a warning?

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada


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