Re: NetBSD and pkgsrc packages of parallel

[Ole Tange]

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:56 AM, Hans Schou <chlor@schou.dk> wrote:
> 2013/3/31 Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
>>
>> The pkgsrc system differentiates between build requirements and runtime
>> requirements.  The binary package only depends on perl, but in order to
>> build parallel, you'd need to have perl and GNU make installed, for
>> which in turn you'd need gcc to build those.
>
> You do not need to have GNU make installed. You can just copy the 'parallel'
> program  to /usr/bin/parallel or where it belongs on NetBSD.

In this case Jan is right: You need GNU make installed to do:

  ./configure && make && make install

Which is the officially supported way of installing GNU tools in
general. It not only copies the commands, it also installs man pages
as well.

>> Hope this makes sense. :-)

I understand why you have a dependency on GNU Make, but shouldn't the
dependency on gcc be in GNU Make's dependencies and not in GNU
Parallel's?


/Ole