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From: Paul Richards <paul@netcraft.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Dependencies
To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 13:25:32 +0100 (BST)
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In reply to Satoshi Asami who said
> 
> Uhh, it should.  The line:
> 
>   EXEC_DEPENDS=   gs:${PORTSDIR}/print/ghostscript
> 
> in the ghostview Makefile does exactly that, check if the program "gs" 
> is in the search path (it uses "which"), and goes to build ghostscript 
> only if it's not found.
> 
> Maybe you don't have /usr/local/bin in your root's search path, then
> well sorry, it won't work, and I don't see any workaround for it.
 
Can't we use the pkg* interface to find out if a package is installed or
not? It's much more robust thatn relying on the path being set properly
for all users who might try and install a port.

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