"David Southwell" <[email protected]> writes:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> David Southwell
>> Sent: 01 October 2009 07:50
>> To: 'Mak Kolybabi'
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: Looking up libraries and header files
>>
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: [email protected]
>> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Mak Kolybabi
>> > Sent: 01 October 2009 07:07
>> > To: [email protected]
>> > Cc: [email protected]
>> > Subject: Re: Looking up libraries and header files
>> >
>> > On 2009-10-01 06:59, [email protected] wrote:
>> > > What is the simplest way to found out which port installs
>> specific
>> > > harder or library files?
>> >
>> > pkg_info has a --which flag that tells you what package a file came
>> > from:
>> > % pkg_info --which /usr/local/include/pcre.h
>> /usr/local/include/pcre.h
>> > was installed by package pcre-7.9
>> >
>> > --
>> > Matthew Anthony Kolybabi (Mak)
>> > <[email protected]>
>> Thanks Mat
>>
>> Now I have two solutions for the price of one question
>>
>> Brill!!
> OK
>
> One problem
>
> How about ports that are not installed?
>
> Is there another route that will deal with stuff not on the system?
>
> David
You can search the pkg-plist files in the ports tree. This won't work
for ports that build a dynamic plist, but those are fairly unusual among
library ports.
--
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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