[Midnightbsd-users] ugly method to test port dependencies

[Stevan Tiefert]

Hello list,

I am asking if my method of finding port dependencies is usable. I think 
it is :-)

I do a

pkg_delete \*

then I delete the Distfiles and Packages or packages directory.

On this I got mports to do all from the beginning. My naked system. The 
problem of not using cached precompiled packages appeared during libXft. 
During make libXft recognized that Xrender.h (xorg-libraries was not 
installed) was not on my system. Then I had to compile xorg-libraries 
manually before compiling libXft. When I deleted everything with 
pkg_delete  \* and made a make install and using the precompiled cached 
packages the error didn't appeared. That is the reason why the Packages 
or packages directory should be deleted.

Then I perform a make install and then I wait until it succed or an 
error appears...

I know it is slow because of not using precompiled packages, but I think 
it is than possible to find every missing dependencies.

With regards and awaiting your respons
Stevan Tiefert