Slave ports

[Sam Cassiba]

On 11/08/11 11:09, Beñat Gonzalez Etxepare wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am in the process of making a new port of some application, but I
> have a problem with dependencies. The building process of this port
> depends in some other port. The problem is they must be built with the
> same options (GTK2 or QT in this case).
>
> I have been told the answer for this may be to create a slave port,
> but I can't find much information about them (there is no explanation
> of what they are in the porter's handbook, and searching through the
> web I have not been able to find anything useful either).
>
> Can somebody point me to the right manual pages or some other port
> which can serve as an example?
>
>
> Thanks in advance.

There are some ports under net-p2p that have qt and gtk slave ports.  A 
couple others I can think of off the top of my head are apache22 and 
php5.  Those areas should be good starting places to look over to give 
you an idea of how to do it.

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Sam Cassiba <sam at cassiba.com>