Re: Arcana of the ports build system

On 1/6/25 09:00, Gleb Popov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> wrote:
>>[...]
>> Now in fact I have net/asio installed, and /usr/local/include/asio.hpp
>> exists.  But attempting to build abiword stops and complains:
>> Does not build with asio from system
>> As far as I can tell, no such thing as "asio from system" even exists.
> 
> The "system" term here means "installed into system-wide prefix" or in
> other words "coming from pkg install".
> The antonym to "system" in this context is "bundled". I presume that
> Abiword has an option to build with asio that comes together with
> Abiword itself.
> 
So ... do I understand that the way to solve this problem is,
counterintuitively. to UNINSTALL asio??  According to the pkg database,
asio was only installed because abiword depends on it!!  I'll try it,
though.

Guess what happened.  There was no "BROKEN" complaint to begin with,
but the first thing that happened was that building editors/abiword
caused net/asio to be built and reinstalled.  At that point, the build
returned to editors/abiword, and now it said:

abiword-3.0.5_11 is marked as broken: Does not build with asio from
system Does not build with asio from system.
*** Error code 1

So something is wrong with the Makefile as it stands, and I have no
clue on how to fix it.  Thanks for your attention.          -- George