From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: x11/tk/8.6: Missing headers in package?
To: Stuart Cassoff <exokoide@yahoo.ca>
Cc: "ports@openbsd.org" <ports@openbsd.org>, Johannes Thyssen Tishman <johannes@thyssentishman.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:29:51 +0100

On 2024/09/20 12:43, Stuart Cassoff wrote:
> Private files aren't meant to be installed. They're in the 8.5 package mostly for historical
> reasons or older ports.
> Instead of using MODULES you could try setting BUILD_DEPENDS for 8.5 and WANTLIB and
> RUN_DEPENDS for 8.6.
> Something like that, maybe other vars as well.

That (building against private headers for an old Tk version which isn't
the version running the extension) seems like a worse idea than building
against current version private headers (whether they come from a :patch
target or from the package).