*_DEPENDS, and getting the wrong versions

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:08:13AM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> # kris at obsecurity.org / 2003-04-22 10:29:35 -0700:
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 11:51:41AM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > > one of the headaches using ports gives me is that it requires too much
> > > attention. Let me explain this. Think a port that can link in
> > > libmysqlclient.so.1{0,2}, and will function the same with either of
> > > them. Most ports today will
> > 
> > Just use a regexp in the dependency :-)
> 
>     does not compute. care to give an example?

LIB_DEPENDS can accept regexps thesedays instead of an exact library
name like foo.1 (see the commit logs for bsd.port.mk).  I don't know
if it's used anywhere yet.

Kris
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