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From: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au>
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On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 16:14 -0500, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> Paul Schmehl wrote:
> > I'm trying to create a port that requires the devel/tcllib port.  I 
> > can't figure out the syntax to use to find the port if it's installed.
> > 
> > tcllib:${PORTSDIR}/devel/tcllib
> > 
> > I've tried tcllib84.so:, lib84.so:, libtcl:, pkgIndex.tcl, and several 
> > other things.  The only tcllib I can find is in:
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Setup/tcllib
> > 
> > I tried both ${X11_BASE}/lib/X11/XFree86Setup/tcllib and 
> > ${MOTIFLIB}/X11/XFree86Setup/tcllib.
> > 
> > Nothing works.  What am I missing?
> > 
> > What would be the syntax for that?
> 
> BUILD_DEPENDS=	dtplite:${PORTSDIR}/devel/tcllib

And you'll probably need to RUN_DEPENDS on that as well.

Read the *_DEPENDS parts at the top of bsd.port.mk for more of an idea
how they work.

Cheers,
Sam