We are in the final stages of removing the old-style LIB_DEPENDS. Basically, this amounts to changing LIB_DEPENDS = foo::path/libfoo into LIB_DEPENDS = ::path/libfoo WANTLIB += foo
stuff like LIB_DEPENDS = bar.>=1,foo.>=2::path/libfoo becoms LIB_DEPENDS = ::path/libfoo WANTLIB += bar.>=1 foo.>=2 please do not put any port in the tree that still has library specs at the front of LIB_DEPENDS. make package will already warn, and I suspect it will become an error in less than a week. (if you're working on ports, you're running current, right ? right ?) Once all the old LIB_DEPENDS are gone, I will remove the corresponding code right away, and make the *DEPENDS smarter. Yes, it means all the extra : will vanish, since the expressions will be fully unambiguous, and we can then use BUILD_DEPENDS = devel/bison or LIB_DEPENDS = path/libfoo without further ado and still have stuff like LIB_DEPENDS = tk->=8.4,<8.5:x11/tk without any ambiguity...
