Fetching and compiling two sources in a single Portfile

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu Feb 12 00:24:59 PST 2009


Jean-Michel Pouré wrote:
> Under GNU/Linux, MLT and MLT++ are two seperate packages. MLT++ providse
> C++ wrapping for MLT libraries. 

If these are distributed as separate packages it might be for a reason.
 A quick check in other distributions shows they all have this separated.

> Maybe this could be provided as one single package in MacPorts. 

Why? Would there be any advantage over creating two ports?

A solution would be to create mlt-c and mlt-cxx and let mlt depend on both.

Rainer


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