[PATCH cygport 1/3] Pass DEPEND through to .hint for source package as build-depends:
Yaakov Selkowitz
yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Fri May 5 20:42:00 GMT 2017
On 2017-05-02 08:13, Jon Turney wrote:
> Converting a dependency atom to a package name with full generality requires
> a database of all the pathnames contained in all packages, so we don't even
> try to do that here, leaving that task for downstream processing of the
> .hint file...
Or should we just replace DEPEND, which allowed atoms which are
unsupported by setup and whose name is confusing wrt REQUIRES, with a
BUILDREQUIRES variable which is package-name only?
--
Yaakov
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