On Jan 27, 2007, at 8:16 PM, Mark Duling wrote:
Is there a way to get the results of an external command into a variable in a portfile?
Yep. Take a look at PYTHON_PATH in the subversion-pythonbindings port for one way to do this sort of thing.
It seems that the freebsd ports sytem has access for perl variables even for non-perl ports. Would that be easy to hack onto MaPorts? It would be nice but I don't know the pros and cons.
I don't think it's worthwhile to add it to base/ since it's relatively easy for the portfiles get their own information if they need it. -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- dluke@geeklair.net ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+