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Many ports depend on other ports.
There are five variables that you can use to ensure that all the required bits will be on the user's machine. There are also some pre-supported dependency variables for common cases, plus a few more to control the behaviour of dependencies. This variable specifies the shared libraries this port depends on. There shall be no regular expressions in this variable. The dependency is checked twice, once from within the extract target and then from within the install target.