March 2007 - macports-dev - lists.macosforge.org

WXwindows defunct?
by Mark Duling 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Has WXWidgets replaced WXWindows? WXWindows port is broken and no ports depend on it. Can it be deleted? Mark

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startupitems arcanery
by markd＠macports.org 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

I am trying to understand the startupitems in the dhcp port because I want to do somewthing similar in another port. Can someone explain what the escapes, brackets, "-x", and "-r" do? And what interprets the "-x" and "-r"? The shell? startupitem.create yes startupitem.name dhcpd startupitem.init "PID=/var/run/dhcpd.pid" startupitem.start "\[ -x ${prefix}/sbin/dhcpd \] && ${prefix}/sbin/dhcpd -cf ${prefix}/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf -lf ${prefix}/var/db/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases" startupitem.stop "\[ -r \${PID} \] && kill \$(cat \${PID})" Mark

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install prefix
by George Georgalis 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

This seems a bug... mkdir MacPorts sudo mv MacPorts /usr/local cd MacPorts-1.4.0 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/MacPorts \ --with-install-user=$USER \ --with-install-group=$USER make && make install ... /usr/bin/install -c -o geo -g geo -m 444 portstyle.7 /usr/local/MacPorts/share/man/man7 /usr/bin/install -c -o geo -g geo -m 444 porthier.7 /usr/local/MacPorts/share/man/man7 /usr/bin/install -c -o geo -g geo -m 444 portgroup.7 /usr/local/MacPorts/share/man/man7 ===> making install in src ===> making install in src/darwinports1.0 /usr/bin/install -c -d -o geo -g geo -m 0775 /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 install: mkdir /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0: Permission denied make[2]: *** [install] Error 71 make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 make: *** [install] Error 1 what happend to the prefix setting? Am I missing a configure option? // George -- George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator <IXOYE><

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Where to edit source
by Eric Tiffany 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Ok, I need to edit the source for a port (tetex) to increase one of its arcane parameters. I'm struggling with how I extract the source, edit the file, and get port to build the new version. I suppose I could add a patch, but since this is just a local change for me, it seems like overkill. I have done 'port extract tetex' but it doesn't seem to do anything. Am I barking up the wrong tree? Thanks, ET

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serious python problem
by Yves de Champlain 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

Hi Of course, everybody knows a python problem is a serious problem ... It seems that python modules linking with libpython will crash upon import. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422624 https://svn.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/11118 any idea ? yves

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Configure flags and universal variants
by Paul Guyot 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

Hi all, Trunk contains new code for configure flags and default universal variant code. It would be great if this could be tested more and released as soon as possible: - it would allow maintainers to work on universal variants - it would allow us to simplify many portfiles by removing: configure.env CFLAGS=-I${prefix}/include LDFLAGS=-L${prefix}/lib Besides, trunk code produces -O2 binaries for autoconf-based ports, while any such port with the previous line is compiled -O0 with 1.4.0. Paul

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lftp upgrade fails (Variant ssl conflicts with tls)
by Vincent Lefevre 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

$ sudo port -v upgrade lftp Error: Variant ssl conflicts with tls Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1 $ port installed lftp The following ports are currently installed: lftp @3.5.6_0+tls (active) Even though ssl is the default variant, I don't think this is a correct behavior for upgrade. I think that a default variant should no longer be default when it conflicts with some provided variant. BTW, is there a reason why ssl is the default variant? -- Vincent Lefèvre <vincent(a)vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

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php extension naming scheme
by Yves de Champlain 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Hi I just made a port for the yaz php extension. Now since there are many such extensions that are all potential ports, does anybody any naming scheme proposition ? How about www/php_yaz ? yves

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Parsing of ports.conf
by Chris Pickel 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

I've been reading through the source for macports, figuring out how it goes about its business, and one particular part struck me as odd-- the parsing of conf_files, i.e. ports.conf. The relevant code is at darwinports.tcl, lines 223-233 For each line in a conf file, for each bootstrap option, this code tests if it is of the format (roughly) of "<that_option> <a_setting>", and if so, sets the option. As a result, any line which is not of that format will be silently ignored. So, if the user makes a typo, or an option is deprecated in a later version of MacPorts, there is no message to that effect. It also seems like the "Tcl way" (insofar as I've learned it in the past few days) would be to sandbox a Tcl interpreter for the purpose of parsing the file. Then, in addition to getting error messages for errors, you could set the prefix and later write "sources_conf $ {prefix}/etc/ports/sources.conf", the benefit of which is I think fairly obvious. Mainly, I am wondering if anyone here knows a reason (other than, at this point, backwards-compatibility) why it is done the way it is. If not, I'm going to have a go tonight at rewriting it in what I hope will be a more sensible manner. Regards, Chris Pickel

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Re: [23139] trunk/dports/gnome/evince/Portfile
by Juan Manuel Palacios 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hey Randall! One question about this commit: On Mar 26, 2007, at 5:47 AM, source_changes(a)macosforge.org wrote: > Revision > 23139 > Author > rhwood(a)macports.org > Date > 2007-03-26 02:47:49 -0700 (Mon, 26 Mar 2007) > > Log Message > Upgrade to version 0.8.0 > Claim joint maintainership with openmaintainer@ > Correct dependencies based on trace output > Add recommended command to post-activate from the build logs > Whitespace changes > Fix some configuration settings > > Modified Paths > • trunk/dports/gnome/evince/Portfile ---snip--- > > > post-activate { > - system "scrollkeeper-update" > + system "scrollkeeper-update" > + system "gtk-update-icon-cache -f -t > /opt/local/share/icons/hicolor" > } > Why hardcode /opt/local here and not use ${prefix} instead? -jmpp

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