Re: [bug #41125] -make documentation is un-installable

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> I think this is mostly a problem packagers are facing.
> For example, I create a package for gnustep-make, then install it.
> But then, I'm done with it. at least on OpenBSD, there is no
> easy way, to rely on an installed version of the same package,
> to build additional components out of it.
I don't know for OpenBSD, but I used to maintain RPMs for GNUstep. You 
must be able to rely on an installed package: e.g. you can rely on make 
or gcc as a "build" dependency (RPMs specify build and runtime 
dependencies).

So when installing base, you need to set gnustep-make as a dependency 
and so on.

The resulting package was a binary + dev package and of course to build, 
you ned the dev-package of the previous. GNUstep-make while bing a dev 
package was set as a dependency.

So the only difficult package for me was gnustep-make (and libobjc-1 
back then) all the rest worked more or less out of the box, chaining 
build-dependencies.

gnustep-make of course gets build in a "clean" environment, except basic 
dependencies. No previous installation is assumed, since it is clean.

Riccardo