path: dependency for files NOT in macports

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 11, 2008, at 02:18, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
>> Is there a way for me to do something like:
>>
>> path:lib/pkgconfig/x11.pc:xorg-libX11
>>
>> but have that dependency satisfied by /usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig/x11.pc ?
>
> You can use "${x11prefix}/lib/pkgconfig/x11.pc",

Actually I'm told you currently can't because variables are not  
expanded in depspecs.

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17182

> but it's not guaranteed to work or be portable...
> i.e. the .pc files don't have to be in "lib",
> they could also be in a "libdata" or something.

MacPorts pkgconfig only searches three paths:

  * ${prefix}/lib/pkgconfig
  * ${prefix}/share/pkgconfig
  * ${x11prefix}/lib/pkgconfig

But I think what Jeremy was getting at is that he doesn't know which  
of those three locations the file might be in.


> So maybe pkconfig:x11:xorg-libX11 is in order ?
> (would need "base" to grow a feature, though)

That's what I was thinking (s/pkconfig/pkgconfig/).