On 6/9/08, Joshua Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > markd at macports.org wrote: > > How is it described better in the man page? > > > The man page says what lib,bin,path mean: > > > type:<filename>:<port> > > > > may be used. Where type is "bin" if <filename> is a program, "lib" > > if it is a library, or "path" if it is a path to an installed file.
Reading this and also the previous posts, the condition of "path" being a path to an "installed file" (and given Ryan's example in a different thread whereby the php5 port with the mysql5 variant added triggers the depends_lib of a path whose path value leads to a possibly installed configuration file (but this configuration file only exists if the mysql5_dev port has been installed) kind of strikes me as a means to confusion because such a dependency isn't really a "non-port" then right? In other words, an "installed file" which has a path that only exists if the port responsible for installing that file has itself been built and installed, then really that's not a "non-port" unlike a lib: or bin: which could be, say, an Apple Mac OS X provided resource (library or binary). True? Granted, from a pure syntactical standpoint, the "path: ..." is not the same as a "port: ..." and thus I can see why its categorized as a "non-port". Thanks, T.M. The guide also doesn't explicitly state that the thing at the end of the > depspec is a port name (maybe that's obvious though). Another point is > that neither the guide nor the man page explicitly states what is done > with the port mentioned at the end of non-port depspecs, i.e. it is > installed if and only if the specified library, binary or file is not > present. > > Might also want to mention that in lib: dependencies, you list the > library name without its extension (e.g. .dylib on Darwin). > > - Josh > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users >
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