#40457: NEW: NEURON -------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: christsc@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: submission | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: neuron | -------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by christsc@…): Replying to [comment:1 ryandesign@…]:

Variants whose names begin with "no" are deprecated and should not be added to new ports. Instead, if there must be a variant, name it "gui" and enable it by default.

Thanks for your review. A revised Portfile is attached. To make the binaries directly executable without prefix, I was thinking to add the following to post-destroot: {{{ ln -s ${applications_dir}/NEURON/nrn/${arch}/bin/* ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/ }}} Is there a better way to achieve this? -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/40457#comment:2> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X

#40457: NEW: NEURON -------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: christsc@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: submission | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: neuron | -------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by christsc@…): Replying to [comment:3 ryandesign@…]:

"destroot.destdir DESTDIR=${destroot}" is the default so it should be removed.

Fixed in the revised Portfiles.

Why does neuron-iv set prefix to ${applications_dir}? It doesn't install any OS X application bundles there. It just installs headers, binaries and libraries which would seem to be more at home in ${prefix}.

NEURON has somewhat [http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/download/compilestd_osx#ivandnrn unusual installation habits]. The default prefix for source installations and binary installers is /Applications/NEURON/iv. Coming from a previous installation, users will expect neuron-iv to reside in NEURON's application directory rather than in ${prefix}. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/40457#comment:4> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X

#40457: NEW: NEURON -------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: christsc@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: submission | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: neuron | -------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by christsc@…): Replying to [comment:5 larryv@…]:

Replying to [comment:4 christsc@…]:

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NEURON has somewhat [http://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/download/compilestd_osx#ivandnrn unusual installation habits]. The default prefix for source installations and binary installers is /Applications/NEURON/iv. Coming from a previous installation, users will expect neuron-iv to reside in NEURON's application directory rather than in ${prefix}.

Maybe you could install to `${prefix}` and symlink into `${applications_dir}`?

Given that none of neuron-iv's headers, binaries and libraries will be used by any port other than NEURON, wouldn't it be cleaner ''not'' to install anything in ${prefix}? This would also avoid any potential file naming collisions. See original post why neuron-iv still needs to be a separate port. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/40457#comment:6> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X