Re: cmake circular dependency

Jonathan Perkin <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:54:38 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.packages
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* On 2026-07-24 at 13:43 BST, Greg Troxel wrote:

>Thomas Klausner <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I don't think the point is to use an older cmake version, for me the
>> point is to have a cmake with fewer dependencies.
>>
>> So having a package with turned-off curl (I guess for auto-fetching)
>> will already go a long way for that.
>
>Perhaps a crazy thought, but what if we just make curl a default-off
>option.  Auto-fetching is basically a bug anyway, in pkgsrc, or in other
>contexts.

You can't disable cmcurl completely (at least without a bunch of 
patches) but you can get it to compile against its bundled curl sources 
(and other bundled sources that it needs) which is what my original 
patch did.

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