Dependency Problem of Upgrading Gnuplot: A Possible Bug

[M A]

On 7/26/07, Xin Liu <smilerliu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think an easier and safer way of is to modify the logic in
> macports::upgrade{} such that when it tries to upgrade things in
> $portinfo(depends_build), $portinfo(depends_run) and
> $portinfo(depends_lib), for every bin/lib style dependency, it does
> one of the following: 1) if the bin/lib file does not exist, install
> the corresponding port (the port specified at the end of the bin/lib
> style); 2) if the bin/lib file exists and the corresponding port is
> installed, upgrade the corresponding port; 3) otherwise, do nothing.
>

Just an aside here, but the same logic should, presumably, apply to
external "path" dependencies also.

Mark A