* Maxim Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-05-11 15:00]:
> KOMATSU Shinichiro wrote:
> >
> > (add To: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >
> > From: Garrett Rooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: Who broke 'make clean' for ports ?
> > Date: Sat, May 11, 2002 at 02:31:32AM JST
> >
> > > there's a circular dependency that was just introduced to gettext.
> > > gettext now depends on expat, which depends on gmake, which depends on
> > > gettext.
> >
> > Recently, I wrote a patch for bsd.port.mk that checks circular dependency.
> > If a dependency loop is found, it gives you a warning and
> > does not invoke 'make' process any further.
> >
> > Someone, please test the patch below.
> > If no problem is found, I will send-pr(8).
> I don't think that we really need such patch. In 99.9999% of cases it
> would just waste CPU cycles. Circular dependency is a bug and as such
> it doesn't need to be a supported "special case".
But it might be a good idea to incorporate this functionality into
${PORTSDIR}/devel/portlint.
Regards,
Olli
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