In the last episode (Apr 22), Dan Nelson said:
> In the last episode (Apr 22), Steve Franks said:
> > (such as myself) incorrectly pointing a port at libpng.5 instead of any
> > libpng, or libpng >= 5. Once the ports tree is 'poisoned' in this
> > fashion, there's really no going back. I'd sure vote for an audit of
> > this behavior as a summer of code project.
>
> I don't think the porter's handbook mentions the DEPENDS_* comparison
> operators at all, so unless you read (and understood) the
> ${deptype:L}-depends target in bsd.port.mk, you might not know it existed.
Nevermind; it's there.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-depend.html#AEN2246
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Dan Nelson
dnel...@allantgroup.com
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