Revision: 77495 http://trac.macports.org/changeset/77495 Author: ryandesign@macports.org Date: 2011-04-01 01:58:47 -0700 (Fri, 01 Apr 2011) Log Message: ----------- portfile-variants.xml: overhaul platform variants section (which still needs further overhaul and splitting, since platform blocks aren't handled as variants anymore) Modified Paths: -------------- trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfile-variants.xml Modified: trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfile-variants.xml =================================================================== --- trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfile-variants.xml 2011-04-01 08:30:25 UTC (rev 77494) +++ trunk/doc-new/guide/xml/portfile-variants.xml 2011-04-01 08:58:47 UTC (rev 77495) @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ user-selected variants and platform variants. User-selected variants are options selected by a user when a port is installed; platform variants are selected automatically by MacPorts base according to the OS or hardware - platform (darwin, freebsd, linux, i386, ppc, etc.).</para> + platform (darwin, freebsd, linux, i386, powerpc, etc.).</para> <section id="reference.variants.user-selected"> <title>User-Selected Variants</title> @@ -167,39 +167,31 @@ <para><literal>platform darwin <replaceable>version</replaceable></literal> can be used to handle - different tasks depending on the version of Mac OS X. - <replaceable>version</replaceable> can be <literal>6</literal> for - 10.2 Jaguar, <literal>7</literal> for 10.3 Panther, - <literal>8</literal> for 10.4 Tiger or <literal>9</literal> for 10.5 - Leopard.</para> + different tasks depending on the version of Darwin, the core + operating system underlying Mac OS X. + <replaceable>version</replaceable> is the major version of Darwin, + and can be <literal>8</literal> for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, + <literal>9</literal> for 10.5 Leopard, <literal>10</literal> for + 10.6 Snow Leopard or <literal>11</literal> for 10.7 Lion.</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> - <para>Default: ???</para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> <para>Examples:</para> <programlisting> -platform darwin 7 { - # Only used on Mac OS X 10.3. - configure.args-append \ - --enable-tcl \ - --with-tcl=/System/Library/Tcl/8.3 +platform darwin 10 { + configure.env-append LIBS=-lresolv }</programlisting> <programlisting> -platform darwin powerpc { - # Only used if Mac OS X is running on a PowerPC processor. - configure.args-append \ - --host=${os.arch}-apple-rhapsody${os.version} -} platform darwin i386 { - # Only used if Mac OS X is running on an Intel processor. - configure.args-append \ - --host=i386-gnu-rhapsody${os.version} + configure.args-append --disable-mmx }</programlisting> + + <programlisting> +platform darwin 8 powerpc { + configure.compiler gcc-3.3 +}</programlisting> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </listitem> @@ -207,12 +199,14 @@ </variablelist> <note> - <para>Though a combination of OS and hardware platform may be specified - in a single platform statement (i. e. darwin i386), it is not possible - to select a range of platforms with a single statement. For example, to - select darwin versions 7 and 8 while excluding all others, you would - need two statements: <code>platform darwin 7</code> and <code>platform - darwin 8</code>.</para> + <para>Though a combination of OS version and hardware platform may be + specified in a single platform statement (i.e. darwin 8 i386), it is not + possible to specify a range of platforms with a single statement. For + example, to select Darwin versions 9 and 10 while excluding all others, + you would need two statements: <code>platform darwin 9</code> and + <code>platform darwin 10</code>. Alternately, you could make that + behavior the port's default, and add a <code>platform darwin 8</code> + block to remove it again.</para> </note> </section> </section>