Re: net/freerdp2 missing build dependency on python27 via gnome-doc-utils/py-xslt

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:01:50PM +0000, Morgan, Iain (ARC-TN)[InuTeq, LLC] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just came across this post while searching for any discussion on this textproc/gnome-doc-utils issue. I don't see that there was any response and the issue is still present in the 2020Q4 release.
> 
> In my case, the problem is triggered by building biology/bioperl. Among its many dependencies, it eventually pulls in textproc/gnome-doc-utils and the same problem ensues.
> 
> The workaround is to ensure that lang/python27 is already installed, but pkgsrc should really just handle this automatically.
> 
> -- 
> Iain Morgan

I just added Python 3 support to gnome-doc-utils which should make the
dependency tree less worse at least.

Things get messy when there are unclean work directories and multiple
Python versions are required simulatenously.