Re: Building a package needing the workdir of another package

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:03:21PM +0100, Edgar Fu? wrote:
> What's the intended way of building a package that needs files from
> the working directory of the build of another package?

There is no simple way. One way to not do that can be found in the
history of math/p5-Math-PARI.

In order of preference:
- adjust the dovecot package to build and install the optional
components
- build the parts of dovecot locally again

Joerg