On Apr 9, 2007, at 08:38, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
On Apr 9, 2007, at 4:39 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Which is why I'm looking for a solution within MacPorts, using which I have been able to create a solution, in the form of the patch attached to the ticket. I'm just looking for the most elegant way to construct the patch, and any assistance in that direction would be appreciated.
If the MacPorts commands I've found and used here are considered to be internal and subject to change, then I request a public API by which I can do what I'm trying to do.
You could make the php port a shell port which depended on other ports (php5-apache2, php5-fastcgi, php5-apache1).
If I do that, how can I avoid each port (php5-apache2, php5-fastcgi, etc.) having to download the php5 source again? Another port, fftw-3, was recently rewritten [1] to use the former zlib strategy for rebuilding itself twice, specifically to avoid having two ports. Currently there is fftw-3 and fftw-3-single, with the latter depending on the former. The two current fftw-3 ports do both download the same source code, which is wasteful. I'm not sure that making separate ports is the best strategy. The FastCGI version of PHP is not a separate software package. Rather, it's just one of the many ways in which PHP can be installed. It's a variation, a variant. And it seems most logical that it be implemented in MacPorts in that way, as a variant. Isn't there a way in tcl to detect if a certain function exists? If this were PHP code, I would just write if (function_exists('command_exec')) { ... } Is there a tcl equivalent of that? I note, by the way, that there are several other ports already using the "command" command, which will break when MacPorts 1.5 (or whatever version) is released which removes the "command" command: dports $ grep '\[command' */*/Portfile aqua/radassist/Portfile: system "[command patch] < \"$ {workpath}/patch-darwinports\"" devel/curlhandle/Portfile: system "[command build]" devel/libsdl-framework/Portfile: system "[command build]" net/nefu/Portfile: system "[command build]" textproc/gpsbabel/Portfile: system "[command build]" [1] Mailing list discussion: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2007-March/ 001063.html [2] Ticket with new portfile as attachment: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/11613