On 16/11/18 1:03 am, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote:

On 11/15/18 7:57 AM, Morgan Adamiec via aur-general wrote:

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On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 at 12:49, hagar wrote:>> But my main question is how do you get around a circular dependancy. eg.

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mingw-w64-harfbuzz depends on - mingw-w64-freetype2

mingw-w64-freetype2 depends on -mingw-w64-harfbuzz

You cant build one unless the other is already built.

You'd want to bootstrap with a binary package.

if foo depends on bar and vice versa, build foo against a binary version of bar then rebuild bar against your version of foo. This advice basically boils down to "you need to already have it in order to build it", which isn't really the most useful advice unless you're using the official repos...

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Another way if possible is to configure foo and disable any features that require bar. Then after building bar, rebuild a fully featured foo. Although I'm not sure if freetype/harfbuzz can be configured this way Looking at the AUR, mingw-w64-harfbuzz depends on mingw-w64-freetype2 which is also provided by mingw-w64-freetype2-minimal, mingw-w64-freetype2-bootstrap. I'm not sure why both variant packages exist, but the -bootstrap variant is pretty obviously meant to do exactly this.

Thanks all, I found the bootstrap ones. Ive been redoing all my 340 odd builds in a chroot with distcc to fix some small issues. Thanks Macca