Bug with multiple port: dependencies in depends_lib ?

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Jul 3, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Olivier Croquette wrote:

> Hi all
>
> While working on my Portfile, I made the following strange observation
> with depends_lib and multiple ports.
>
> If I have:
>
>   depends_lib         port:test-qt4-mac port:git-core
>
> Then I get:
>   Error: Dependency 'test-qt4-mac' not found.
> So far, so good.
>
> But if I switch the ports:
>
>   depends_lib         port:git-core port:test-qt4-mac
>
> There is no error! It just starts fetching and building my port.
> Apparently, only the first port: is taken into consideration.
>

Looks like a bug in 1.6, as I can reproduce it there, but on trunk it  
works as one would expect.  I think this is only the case when one of  
the ports isn't actually found in PortIndex though, as otherwise  
multiple dependencies work fine on 1.6.

Bryan


>
> According to the doc:
> http://guide.macports.org/#reference.dependencies.types
> multiple ports are allowed.
>
> Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug?
>
> @Rainer: this is the reason why I didn't catch the problem with  
> "qt4" in
> <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15820> . Does your installation catch
> the problem!?
>
> Thanks
>
> Olivier