Binary downloads

[Blair Zajac]

On 04/10/2012 08:38 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2012-4-11 13:28 , Blair Zajac wrote:
>> More questions.
>>
>> How are variants handled for dependent packages?
>
> The same way they're handled normally.
>
>> For example, I add a bunch of default variants to variants.conf that has
>> perl5.* compile using +shared +threads and if this changes Perl's ABI,
>> then how are the dependent binary Perl modules handled?
>
> Badly, just as though you installed a bunch of perl modules and then
> rebuilt perl with +shared +threads. You can't depend on a variant.
>
>> Actually, a better example is Python, I compile with +ucs4 which changes
>> the functions for managing Unicode and if a binary module is loaded into
>> a Python with +ucs2, then things will fail with missing symbols.
>>
>> Should binary downloads be disabled if a reverse-dependent package has a
>> non-default variant set?
>
> Ports that require their dependencies to be built with specific variants
> should be fixed.

Thanks for the fast answers Josh, I appreciate it.

Blair