Re: [LINUX] pkgsrc ignores installed depends

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

Dario Niedermann <dnied%tiscali.it@localhost> writes:

> I use pkgsrc on Slackware, and I'm having trouble getting pkgsrc to find
> the dependencies that are already installed on the native system.
>
> For example, I'm trying to build VLC and I get this:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> pkgsrc/multimedia/vlc# setenv PKG_OPTIONS.vlc 'x11 sdl faad'

This should be make variable rather than environment one.
See section 5.6. "Selecting Build Options".

> pkgsrc/multimedia/vlc# bmake
>       ...
>       ...
> => Full dependency SDL>=1.2.10: NOT found
>       ...
>       ...
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> But I have sdl 1.2.13 installed via my distro's package system.
>
> After RTFM, I put the following lines into /usr/pkg/etc/mk.conf:
>
>       PREFER_PKGSRC?=
>       PREFER_NATIVE?=         yes
>       X11_TYPE?=              native
>
> But it didn't help pkgsrc realize what's already installed.

Look into devel/SDL. It is obvious to see that using builtin SDL is not 
supported.


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