pyrex was added as a BDEP for xmms2 in Makefile r1.3. My guess is that an earlier version of xmms2 may have needed it.
This BDEP seems to have been cargo-culted forward over the years. Looking in INSTALL I see that cython is mentioned rather than pyrex. Presumably that means xmms2 had switched from pyrex -> cython by the time the ports tree got version 0.8 of xmms2 back in 2012. I confirmed xmms2 builds fine without pyrex. Looking in the Makefile I see do-configure: has the "--no-cython" option so don't seem to need to replace the pyrex BDEP with a cython BDEP. ok? Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/audio/xmms2/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.53 diff -u -p -u -r1.53 Makefile --- Makefile 24 Feb 2020 09:32:38 -0000 1.53 +++ Makefile 17 Oct 2020 19:22:42 -0000 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ COMMENT = audio player daemon with libr V = 0.8 DISTNAME = xmms2-${V}DrO_o PKGNAME = xmms2-${V} -REVISION = 13 +REVISION = 14 SHARED_LIBS += xmmsclient++ 2.0 # 4.0.0 SHARED_LIBS += xmmsclient++-glib 1.0 # 1.0.0 @@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ MODULES = lang/python \ NO_TEST = Yes -BUILD_DEPENDS = devel/pyrex \ - devel/boost +BUILD_DEPENDS = devel/boost LIB_DEPENDS = devel/glib2 \ databases/sqlite3 \ Index: pkg/PLIST =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/audio/xmms2/pkg/PLIST,v retrieving revision 1.7 diff -u -p -u -r1.7 PLIST --- pkg/PLIST 18 Jul 2018 19:36:37 -0000 1.7 +++ pkg/PLIST 17 Oct 2020 19:22:42 -0000 @@ -97,43 +97,43 @@ lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/xmmsclient/propdict.py lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/xmmsclient/qt3.py lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/xmmsclient/sync.py -lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/xmmsclient/xmmsapi.so -lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/xmmsclient/xmmsvalue.so +@so lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/xmmsclient/xmmsapi.so +@so lib/python${MODPY_VERSION}/site-packages/xmmsclient/xmmsvalue.so lib/xmms2/ -lib/xmms2/libxmms_ao.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_apefile.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_asf.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_asx.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_avcodec.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_cue.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_curl.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_daap.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_diskwrite.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_equalizer.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_file.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_flac.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_flv.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_gvfs.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_html.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_icymetaint.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_id3v2.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_jack.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_karaoke.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_m3u.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_mp4.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_mpg123.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_normalize.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_null.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_nulstripper.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_pls.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_replaygain.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_rss.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_sndfile.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_tta.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_vorbis.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_wave.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_xml.so -lib/xmms2/libxmms_xspf.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_ao.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_apefile.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_asf.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_asx.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_avcodec.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_cue.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_curl.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_daap.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_diskwrite.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_equalizer.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_file.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_flac.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_flv.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_gvfs.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_html.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_icymetaint.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_id3v2.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_jack.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_karaoke.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_m3u.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_mp4.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_mpg123.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_normalize.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_null.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_nulstripper.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_pls.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_replaygain.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_rss.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_sndfile.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_tta.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_vorbis.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_wave.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_xml.so +@so lib/xmms2/libxmms_xspf.so ${P5ARCH}/ ${P5ARCH}/Audio/ ${P5ARCH}/Audio/XMMSClient/ @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ ${P5ARCH}/Audio/XMMSClient/Sync.pm ${P5ARCH}/auto/ ${P5ARCH}/auto/Audio/ ${P5ARCH}/auto/Audio/XMMSClient/ -${P5ARCH}/auto/Audio/XMMSClient/XMMSClient.so +@so ${P5ARCH}/auto/Audio/XMMSClient/XMMSClient.so @man man/man1/xmms2-et.1 @man man/man1/xmms2-launcher.1 @man man/man1/xmms2-mdns-avahi.1