[csw-maintainers] gar question

[Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com]

> Darin Perusich wrote on 28.04.2010 23:17:
>> I'm trying to build perl 8 from gar and it's failing to find the
>> PathTools-3.30 dependency. The same thing happens when I attempt to
>> build perl 10 as well. I thought all that need to be done was checkout
>> the package, change to the trunk/tag directory, and run gmake. What am I
>> doing wrong?
>
> I can't speak for the perl recipe, only for the GAR workings in general.
>
> Most build recipes in GAR specify the runtime dependencies for a package
> (RUNTIME_DEP_PKGS), but not yet the build dependencies (BUILD_DEP_PKGS).
>    If a recipe defines the build dependencies, GAR warns you in case any
> of the build depencies is missing. I guess the perl recipe doesn't
> define them, thus you can run into missing build dependencies.
>
> Either way you have to install such build dependencies manually, GAR
> doesn't pull them in automatically. @Dago: How about a GAR target a la
> "install-build-deps"?

I should have clarified that it's trying to download PathTools-3.30 and
it's not available on any of the mirrors.