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Subject: Re: Example of a port that relies on another port's sources
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:41:32 +0000
Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> Dear ports list,
> 
> I seem to remember a while back a discussion in the Porter's Handbook about
> having port X depend on the sources from port Y for building, and triggering
> automatic extraction of those sources.  However I can't see any mention of
> such a thing in the currently available version of the Porter's Handbook.

BUILD_DEPENDS+=	${NONEXISTENT}:${PORTSDIR}/category/port:extract

(check my spelling :)

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