On Dec 15, 2007, at 13:25, Charlse Darwin wrote:
Why isn't darwinbuild available as a port?
I for one hadn't heard of darwinbuild before. Ports are added to MacPorts as people request them, or more importantly, as people write them. If you'd like a port for darwinbuild, you can file a port request ticket in Trac, but the best way to get the port added is to write it yourself and attach it to the ticket.
and if I run svn co http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/darwinbuild/trunk darwinbuild
how do I go about building and running darwinbuild itself on my machine?
Well now that's the first thing you'd have to figure out before you can make a port. You should probably consult the documentation that comes with darwinbuild, or if none does, ask their mailing list or their developers.