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To: Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: ./mail/mew without ./japanese/mew 
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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:11:10 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com> wrote:
>The obvious solution is to cvsup both ports-mail and ports-japanese but 
>that's not much of a solution. Any other suggestions?

I think that mail/mew/Makefile needs something like

.if exists(${.CURDIR}/../../japanese/mew/Makefile)
.include "${.CURDIR}/../../japanese/mew/Makefile"
.else
BROKEN=		"requires japanese/mew port"
.include <bsd.port.mk>
.endif

(or maybe the dependency should go the other way; japanese/mew could
depend on mail/mew)

  Bill