On 2011-03-03 23:47 , Daniel J. Luke wrote: > On Mar 3, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> So I don't think changing the behavior of bin:- or lib:-style >> dependencies is warranted. Port authors just need to use the >> correct dependency style for what they're trying to do. > > My preference would be to have path: work this way, and bin search > only inside $prefix.
Some ports I maintain require external tools in the configure script (grep, awk, etc.). I don't want to force everyone to install the grep port for this as Apple provided grep works for this. So I added bin:grep:grep to depends_build, as this satisfies the dependency in trace mode. Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
