[PATCH cygport 1/3] Pass DEPEND through to .hint for source package as build-depends:

[Jon Turney]

On 05/05/2017 21:42, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> 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?

Changing the name to something less confusing seems like a good idea.

I kind of like the current scheme, as it can do some checks when 
cross-compiling as well.

I think that something (calm?) needs to keep a database of all package 
pathnames, to check for pathname collisions between packages (I suspect 
we have some unnoticed cases of that at the moment), so the extra cost 
of doing a conversion from cygport dependency atoms in a .hint to 
package names in setup.ini shouldn't be too much.  It'll be a while 
before that happens, though... :)

People also like to typo this as DEPENDS, so some sort of warning that 
the .cygport sets a variable which has no effect might also be useful.