Re: building wip/mu for emacs29nox

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Marko Bauhardt <marko.bauhardt%mailbox.org@localhost> writes:

> So, first I have a meta-package where I describe my packages for mail
>
> ```
> DEPENDS+=       mblaze-[0-9]*:../../mail/mblaze
> DEPENDS+=       mu-[0-9]*:../../wip/mu
> META_PACKAGE=   yes
> .include "../../mk/bsd.pkg.mk"
> ```
>
> I thought it is not required to define emacs as dep.
> But it looks like I have to.
>
> - edit etc/mk.conf and set EMACS_TYPE to emacs29nox
> - add emacs as dependendy in my Makefile `DEPENDS+=emacs-[0-9]*:../../editors/emacs29-nox11`
> - and *important*: run bmake clean before bmake

Yes, starting out with no workdirs is always good practice.

I don't see why you need to depend on emacs in your metapackage.  That
feels like a bug in pkgsrc if you have to.  But I am guessing that you
don't, once you have cleaned up other issues.