On Dec 9, 2011, at 17:14, Scott Webster wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
>> 
>> Is it possible for a port to check if one of its dependencies is installed 
>> with a required variant, and warn if not ?
>> 
>> I ask since the opengl variant of the root port requires mesa to be 
>> installed with the x11 variant, which is not the default. The build fails if 
>> this isn't the case.
>> 
> 
> This isn't exactly what you are asking for, but a similar idea:
> 
> wine (and wine-devel) only builds 32 bit, so if you want to install it
> on a normally 64-bit system you need to make sure all the dependencies
> are build universal.

MacPorts does so for you automatically, provided all dependencies were 
installed (or last upgraded) using MacPorts 1.9.0 or later. So, this 
information isn't relevant to this thread.


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