Re: How to change the dependencies a particular package has?

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2018-07-25 at 22:52 BST, Brian Buhrow wrote:

> 	Hello.  For reasons beyond the scope of this message, I'm building
> pkgsrc packages on an old FreeBSD-2.2.7 system.  I've run into a circular
> dependency between flex and bison.  The native system has a sufficiently
> current version of flex, so I'd like to remove the flex dependency from the
> bison build process.    What I can't figure out is where that dependency is
> referenced.

The flex requirement comes from mk/tools/flex.mk, which states that at
least version 2.5.4 is required - are you sure your native version is
at least that, reported via --version?

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