[shep]

I received an email response from Antoine Jacoutot:

SHARED_LIBS are versionned shared libraries included in the package.
WANTLIB are libraries that the package depends on.

I think I understand the basic process of compiling a program from source and believe that the porting team uses WANTLIBS, SHARED_LIBS and LIB_DEPENDS entries to assist in port maintenance but I can't find strict definitions and guidelines on how to do this. I think I have everything else (post_install , plists, DESCR) ready to go.

@jggimi

I haven't built a port in several years. From memory, I recall using WANTLIB for libraries in the base or in X, and I recall setting third party libraries as LIB_DEPENDS. I may not remember correctly.

Is there a list of what packages are in the baseXX.tgz and the x****XX.tgz?