path: dependency for files NOT in macports

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Dec 11, 2008, at 20:06, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Dec 11, 2008, at 20:34, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>
>> On Dec 11, 2008, at 17:14, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>>> The dependency is satisfied if the named port is installed,  
>>>> regardless
>>>> of whether it actually provides the specified file.
>>>
>>> So in this case you would depend on
>>>
>>> path:/usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig/x11.pc:xorg-libX11
>>>
>>> If /usr/X11/lib/pxkgconfig.x11.pc exists that will satisfy (would  
>>> be the case on Leopard and later), and if not, then port xorg- 
>>> libX11 will be installed (for Tiger and earlier).
>>
>> Yeah, but what if someone has it in /usr/local/... or whatever...   
>> I guess I could do it with ${x11prefix}, but it would still be nice  
>> to have a "is this file in any prefix that would be searched for  
>> bin: lib: dependencies" kind of dependency such that  
>> bin:myapp:myapp would be equivalent to thisnewone:bin/myapp:myapp
>
> It is already unsupported for users to have anything in /usr/local  
> while using MacPorts. We don't want to now reverse that policy.
>
> bin: and lib: dependency styles wouldn't search /usr/local. Well, I  
> suppose, unless the user added /usr/local/bin to binpath in  
> macports.conf. But that would be unsupportable.

Ok, then I'm satisfied with the path:${x11prefix}/... once that gets  
expanded...

Thanks.