[MacPorts] #38159: New port: gaa
#38159: New port: gaa ------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: egall@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: submission | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.1.3 Keywords: | Port: gaa ------------------------+-------------------------------- I saw a link to gaa's [http://gaa.sourceforge.net sourceforge] scrolling by in some port's configure script (I forget which one), so I went to see if there was a port already for it, and I was surprised to find that there wasn't one yet, so I went and [https://github.com/cooljeanius/gaa forked the project to my Github], patched it up and got it to build, and then wrote a portfile for it, which is attached. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38159> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS
#38159: New port: gaa -------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: egall@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: submission | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.1.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: gaa | -------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by ryandesign@…): * Did you have to change a lot? Have these changes been contributed back to the developers? * Why is the autoreconf variant needed? -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38159#comment:1> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS
#38159: New port: gaa -------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: egall@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: submission | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.1.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: gaa | -------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by egall@…): Replying to [comment:1 ryandesign@…]:
* Did you have to change a lot? Have these changes been contributed back to the developers? I don't think the original developers exist any more, the Sourceforge project hasn't been updated since 2002.
* Why is the autoreconf variant needed? It isn't; feel free to remove it if you don't want it. I just personally like to run autoreconf before configuring stuff.
-- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38159#comment:2> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS
#38159: New port: gaa -------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: egall@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: submission | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.1.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: gaa | -------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by larryv@…): Seems weird to me to use your fork for this while still referring to the original homepage. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38159#comment:3> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS
#38159: New port: gaa -------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: egall@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: submission | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.1.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: gaa | -------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by egall@…): Replying to [comment:3 larryv@…]:
Seems weird to me to use your fork for this while still referring to the original homepage.
- My fork compiles on OS X; the original doesn't - The original actually has a homepage; I haven't bothered making anything quite that fancy for my fork Feel free to remove the homepage entry if you want... -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38159#comment:4> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS
#38159: New port: gaa -------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: egall@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: submission | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.1.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: gaa | -------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by larryv@…): Is this something you’re going to actively maintain? How extensive are the changes you made? Would it be viable for the portfile to patch the original source directly? -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38159#comment:5> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS
#38159: New port: gaa -------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: egall@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: submission | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.1.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: gaa | -------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by egall@…): Replying to [comment:5 larryv@…]:
Is this something you’re going to actively maintain? Well I'm not planning on making any major functionality changes or anything like that to it, but I'll do my best to fix bug reports and stuff.
How extensive are the changes you made? See comment:2 above.
Would it be viable for the portfile to patch the original source directly? idk, I haven't tried that method.
-- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38159#comment:6> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS
#38159: New port: gaa -------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: egall@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: submission | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.1.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: gaa | -------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by egall@…): I opened an issue upstream to make sure they're okay with my portfile submission here: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3607509&group_id=49169&atid... Although I'm not really expecting a response seeing as the original Sourceforge project is dead, so I wouldn't really wait to hear anything back before committing this... -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38159#comment:7> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X
#38159: New port: gaa -------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: egall@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: submission | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.1.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: gaa | -------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by egall@…): I found the configure script that I had originally seen the message about gaa scrolling by in: it was for gnutls: {{{ checking for gaa... no configure: WARNING: *** *** GAA was not found. It is only needed if you wish to modify *** the source code or command-line description files. In this case, *** you may want to get it from http://gaa.sourceforge.net/ and *** read doc/README.gaa. *** }}} -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38159#comment:8> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X
#38159: New port: gaa -------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: egall@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: submission | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.1.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: gaa | -------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by egall@…): Apparently Fink already had a package for gaa that I could've been working from this whole time: http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/gaa Anyway I'm working on a new version of this portfile that patches the original source instead of using my fork... -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38159#comment:9> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X
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