[46331] trunk/dports/mail/postfix/Portfile

[William Siegrist]

On Feb 2, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Olivier Le Floch wrote:

>> Revision: 46331
>>         http://trac.macports.org/changeset/46331
>> Author:   ryandesign at macports.org
>> Date:     2009-02-02 13:48:21 -0800 (Mon, 02 Feb 2009)
>> Log Message:
>> -----------
>> postfix: allow mysql5-devel to satisfy the mysql5 dependency
>
>> -    depends_lib-append port:mysql5
>> +    depends_lib-append path:bin/mysql_config5:mysql5
>
> I have a question regarding this depends_lib syntax : how does  
> macports decide which port to install to satisfy this dependency if  
> a port providing mysql5 is not already installed ?

The last "mysql5" in that line specifies the port to install if the  
binary is not found.

http://guide.macports.org/#reference.dependencies.types


-Bill