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Subject: Re: how do you specify a minimum lib version?
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On -10.01.-28163 14:59, Michael Scheidell wrote:
> in LIB_DEPENDS
> it won't take anything like:
>
> = boost_serialization>=.4
>
> what if you needed a minimum version of the library?

For years now the shared-library's major number is treated as a regular 
expression by bsd.port.mk.

So you could use something like:

    LIB_DEPENDS=    boost_serialization.[456789]:...

this should be enough for a while -- until there appears boost_serialization.10, 
necessitating a hairier regexp. ImageMagick port uses this to depend on the 
fixed version of libfpx, for example.

You may also be able to insist on the version of the boost port being above a 
certain string, but I don't know the syntax... Yours,

    -mi