[103793] trunk/dports/devel/lua-numlua

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Mar 11, 2013, at 4:35 AM, "Andrea D'Amore" <and.damore at macports.org> wrote:

> I have had the portfile partially edited for a while so I'm not sure
> about why I went with lib: in first place, IIRC it was to due the
> presence of multiple library version in ports rather than using a
> non-mp provided library, i.e. there's hdf5 and hdf5-18 and I didn't
> want to force one or the other.
> This could (and maybe should) be in portfile logic accessing registry,
> probably when I set the dependency I couldn't remember the registry
> functions and was too lazy to check those.
> 
> So if there's an actual reason for switching this from lib: to port:
> dependency and putting in explicit logic for the dependency checking
> I'd like to read it. Otherwise I'd rather keep the port the way it is,
> possibly switching to path: dependencies with leading $prefix in order
> to keep them in ports.

If they use the same library name, you should be able to do something like this. (I'm just making the path up; I don't know what the right one would be in your case.)

    path:lib/libhdf5.dylib:hdf5-18

This stays inside the MacPorts prefix.

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