Re: harden distribution
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 02:22:29PM -0700, Nick Jennings wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:44:20PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I've heard a lot of praise of BSD's ports tree and its "make world", but
> > I've only built simple programs with it. How does it handle build
> > dependencies?
>
> Very well, It has a list of libraries or applications that it relies on, and
> if those files arent found in the system, theres a list of places to grab
> the source, and it's compiled before the original package specified is.
>
> for instance if I went into the gimp directory in the ports tree and did a
> 'make install' it would grab gtk & glib etc and compile all of that before
> it got back to gimp.
I assume it installs the prerequisites, rather than trying to use them out of
the build directory. Are the development libraries (and other bits that are no
longer necessary) uninstalled afterward? Can binary packages be used instead
of compiling every prerequisite from source?
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- mdz
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