Re: Building a package needing the workdir of another package

[Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

OK, since managesieve needs a patched dovecot anyway (you must both apply a 
patch to dovecot and build a seperate program), I decided to try putting 
managesieve into the dovecot package.

However, what I would need now is the following order:
Configure dovecot
Build dovecot
Configure sieve
Build sieve
Configure managesieve
Build managesieve

What pkgsrc does, of course, is
Configure dovecot
Configure managesieve
Configure sieve
Build dovecot
Build sieve
Build managesieve

and configuring sieve fails because dovecot has not been built yet.

Any prior art on how to handle this?
I would run into the same problem no matter which option (other than patching 
dovecot and sieve to install the libraries needed by managesieve) I would 
choose.