Slave ports

[Sahil Tandon]

On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 17:10:26 -0800, Doug Barton wrote:

> On 11/21/2011 15:17, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > Lets suppose you want the gtk2 version of lazarus, and lets further
> > suppose that the two slave ports discussed previously have been created.
> > 
> > You would write dependency lines in the port Makefile eg. like this:
> > 
> > BUILD_DEPENDS =	lazarus:${PORTSDIR}/editors/lazarus-gtk2
> 
> In spite of its not being documented in bsd.port.mk (hello? portmgr?
> anyone?) there is an alternate way to describe the dependency that would
> fix this problem:
> 
> BUILD_DEPENDS=	lazarus-gtk2>=1.23:${PORTSDIR}/editors/lazarus-gtk2

FWIW, this is at least documented in the Porter's Handbook. :)

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/book.html#AEN2373

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Sahil Tandon