tcl or portfile keyword for alias

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Feb 9, 2009, at 3:53 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Feb 9, 2009, at 14:21, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
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>> Does anyone know a simple way to env alias a command like  
>> mysql_config=/opt/local/bin/mysql_config5?
>>
>> I have a lib I'm porting "libzdb" that uses "mysql_config --libs  
>> $LDFLAGS".
>>
>> I'm trying to find a way to make this build without patching.
>
> You could prepend ${prefix}/lib/mysql5/bin to the PATH. That's where  
> the program "mysql_config" lives.
>
>
> configure.env-append    PATH=${prefix}/lib/mysql5/bin:$env(PATH)

Well, I'll be. I have never bothered to check if mysql_config5 was a  
symlink.

Nice to know. Some scripts accept paths to mysql_config dir. I should  
have checked that out.