Re: lang/rust: resurrect PORT_LLVM as a non-default OPTION
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2023 23:28:53 UTC
Mark Millard wrote: > My understanding is that building a devel/llvm* these days requires > building rust first, via needing to build python things (for > documentation purposes?), that in turn need rust to have been built > first. Last I knew, trying to disable the llvm* DOCS option in a > normal way did not avoid the "needs rust" issue. > This is no longer necessary. > Absent use of a workaround to avoid this, it would seem to be > problematical to use PORT_LLVM for rust if the llvm* in question > would itself need to be built. > The circular dependency was removed by default in ports commit 761dc8a9f4ddef2adad122a57a477e65457582fb. It was an OPTION that should not have been default for other reasons. -- Charlie Li ...nope, still don't have an exit line.