LIB_DEPENDS not really required for build?

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 2/4/07, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> > You should take another look at the excerpt you
> > posted. Looks like portsdir has been redefined.
>
> Yes, PORTSDIR has been redefined to point to where my ports reside. ;-)
>
> I fully understand that I am missing these dependencies.  They simply do
> not exist on that system.
>
> My complaint is that the build should stop immediately, with a clear error
> message, instead of forging ahead and silently do the wrong thing or fail
> at a later stage, during build, installation, or run-time.

It's been written in big red letters that partial/broken
ports trees are not supported.