[92462] trunk/dports/databases

[vincent habchi]

On 1 mai 2012, at 21:21, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

>  dependencies are installed before the fetch phase, but build and lib dependencies aren't necessarily installed until just before the configure phase.

Thanks for clarifying this.


> It's not documented, and it's not something every port should be using, but when you need to know this information, then it's probably better to use the API than to run a shell.
> 
> I've fixed this in r92582, and made a few other adjustments to postgis2 in some earlier revisions.

Great! Thanks for taking the time to improve my sketch. I’ve noted the way you ask for another port registry. Ideally, we should get rid of that check if the PostgreSQLxx ports are updated to strip arch flags from PGXS scripts. But as long as this bug is not fixed…

Btw, this leads me to another question: is it possible to specify that a ports depends on either another port or a third one; e.g. something like: “depends-lib postgis, postgis2” that would specify one of the two, at the user’s leisure.

Cheers and thanks again!
Vincent