general dependency questions

[Brian Barnes]

On Dec 20, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Anders F Björklund wrote:

>> Also, the portfile for grace has the following dependency line:
>> depends_lib             lib:libX11.6:XFree86 \
>>
>> X11 for Leopard provide X11R7 (instead of 6) and is based on xorg,  
>> not XFree86.  But, I know that macports grace works in Leopard.   
>> So I'm wondering, how exactly is that line parsed?  How badly  
>> malformed would it have to be, before macports tries to compile  
>> XFree86 itself or just refuses to install?
>
> Leopard's X11 still uses libX11.6, even though being /usr/X11/ and  
> X.org based

I guess it may still be there in symlink or in full, but I am just  
going on the X11R7 info as provided at:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/DeveloperInfo
and
http://developer.apple.com/opensource/tools/X11.html

still curious about my questions, though :)

thanks,

-Brian