Subject: Re: Please add USE_TOOLS+=perl warning
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/16/2006 18:42:56
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 06:44:57PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 06:33:24PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a new package which, at the end of 'make', tells me:
> > => Unwrapping files-to-be-installed.
> > WARNING: Please add USE_TOOLS+=perl to the package Makefile.
> >
> > From where does this comes ? The sources may make reference to perl,
> > but as I'm only building a subset of the packages it's not needed.
> > A dependancy may need it, though.
>
> An empty Perl script is generated by the wrapper framework, which
> remembers if it was called and generates the warning in that case.
It's right; the build process uses it. And unfortunably it doesn't fail when
it hits an error at this point :(
Thanks !
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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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