Bug 247637

Summary:	Porter's Handbook: Document that BINARY_ALIAS does not work for TEST_DEPENDS
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	---
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Mateusz Piotrowski freebsd_committer

2020-06-29 15:11:26 UTC

Let's say that I'd like to replace python with python3.8 in all the tests within a port. I cannot do it with BINARY_ALIAS, because it will fail as BINARY_ALIAS is processed way before test dependencies are extracted.

Comment 1 commit-hook freebsd_committer

2020-11-03 12:40:17 UTC

A commit references this bug:

Author: 0mp
Date: Tue Nov  3 12:39:33 UTC 2020
New revision: 54673
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/54673

Log:
  Explain why BINARY_ALIASES cannot be used for programs from TEST_DEPENDS

  PR:		247637

Changes:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml