path: dependency for files NOT in macports

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at macports.org
Thu Dec 11 14:42:24 PST 2008


On Dec 11, 2008, at 08:50, Joshua Root wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> Technically that only seems to be the case for $prefix - but expanding
> $x11prefix at indexing time is wrong anyway. Yet, it may do just what
> you want in this particular case.

either way, that's still checking that it's in ${x11prefix} only and  
doesn't let the macports one satisfy it =/



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