Using >= to check for minimum versions.

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 17:04:29 -0400
Adrian <teksimian at gmail.com> mentioned:

> Hey guys,
> 
> Using the minimum version checking is not working for me.
> 
> using :
> LIB_DEPENDS=	usb-0.1.8:${PORTSDIR}/devel/libusb
> works.
> 
> but using the following construct as section 5.7.9 of the porters
> handbook suggests
> #LIB_DEPENDS=	usb>=0.1.8:${PORTSDIR}/devel/libusb
> 
This doesn't work for LIB_DEPENDS and you need pkg-config compatible
depend for this. However, you can use RUN_DEPENDS or BUILD_DEPENDS, e.g.

BUILD_DEPENDS=  libusb>=0.1.8:${PORTSDIR}/devel/libusb

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