On 25.08.2011 15:55, [email protected] wrote:
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
>> Should the virtualbox port Makefile set BROKEN if Python threads
are missing?
>
> No. This is a port option that is enabled per default. Modifying
port
> options is always on your own risk and the general rule is that
ports
> don't check that.
One of the functions of a port is to make sure the requirements are
in
place, or fail gracefully if they aren't. But I understand what you
are saying, and don't know if there's a good way to do this anyway.
Greeting-
I am rebuilding now and will let everyone know if it works now that
python
is built with threads.
I think that if the port needs python threads it should SAY
SOMETHING.
I spent a month on this before asking for help. Now maybe I should
not
have spent so much time, but the net is full of posts in various
places
about virtualbox not building, so I wanted to run down the already
ASKED and
ANSWERED before bothering people.
I have seen other ports fail if a pre-req was not built according to
the
ports liking. I do not know how it is done, but I know it can be
done.
Thanks everyone and I will post my results when my build is done.
-Brett
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I was building a port that depended on threaded perl and used code like
this:
.if exists(${PERL})
PERL_THREADS!= ${PERL} -V::usethreads
.if ${PERL_THREADS}!="'define';"
IGNORE= needs a threaded Perl, build with WITH_THREADS=yes flag
and try again
.endif
.else
IGNORE= needs an existing installation of Perl built with
WITH_THREADS=yes
.endif
Perhaps you could use something similar?
Rusty Nejdl
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