Re:Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017)
by toast0 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @12:29PM
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> Yeah. Not sure about BSD, but I was wading into building the GNU coreutils and other GNU packages just yesterday. Fresh hell, they all seem to be build dependencies of each other. ‘sed’ is its own build dependency.
This is an area where the BSDs are pretty good. There may not be a dependency system here exactly, but because XBSD base builds XBSD base, everything you need is in one checkout. Generally with just (BSD) Make driving the build.
Programs outside of base are genrerally built with Portfiles which specify dependencies such that (BSD) Make can satisfy them. But somebody has to write the Portfile, and it's often not the authors of the program.
This is an area where the BSDs are pretty good. There may not be a dependency system here exactly, but because XBSD base builds XBSD base, everything you need is in one checkout. Generally with just (BSD) Make driving the build.
Programs outside of base are genrerally built with Portfiles which specify dependencies such that (BSD) Make can satisfy them. But somebody has to write the Portfile, and it's often not the authors of the program.