From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 16 00:10:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A92E16A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:10:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.utdallas.edu (smtp1.utdallas.edu [129.110.10.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 063C843D31 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:10:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from utd49554 (utd49554.utdallas.edu [129.110.3.85]) by smtp1.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A772F388CD4 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:10:35 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:10:35 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl To: ports@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: mysqltcl X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Paul Schmehl List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:10:36 -0000 I have two questions. I'm trying to create a new port, and I need to indicate a dependency for mysqltcl. What I've tried fails: mysqltcl:${PORTSDIR}/databases/mysqltcl Second question - RUN_DEPENDS+= ${LOCALBASE}/bin/dtplite:${PORTSDIR}/devel/tcllib worked. In the interest of teaching a man to fish rather than feeding him, how did you figure this out? How do you figure out what library name or executable to use in the first tuple of DEPENDS? I've been doing it by trial and error, and that's obviously time consuming and inefficient. Is there a db somewhere that you can look this stuff up in? Is it in the docs somewhere? Tea leaves? Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu