I submitted the diff at http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/5464. Sancho On 4-Jun-07, at 3:22 PM, markd@macports.org wrote:
Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> on Monday, June 4, 2007 at 2:23 PM -0800 wrote:
Yeah, I could do it. It would be my first maintenance task ever on a port though, so I would need some guidance. Is there a good reference to read to explain what I'd need to do?
Not exactly, unfortunately. The documentation from when the project was called DarwinPorts has not been migrated to MacPorts yet, and is out of date. But you can still read it here in the Internet Archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060427120406/darwinports.opendarwin.org/ docs/
The best advice is to look at existing portfiles and see how they do things.
You will want to make a copy of the boost portfile:
$ cd `port dir boost` $ cp Portfile Portfile.orig
Then edit the portfile:
$ port edit boost
Then make your changes and try installing the port. Once you have a change you're happy with and want to share, get a diff of your changes:
$ diff Portfile.orig Portfile > Portfile.diff
Attach the diff to a new ticket in MacPorts' Trac installation. Then write back to the list and tell us the ticket number and someone will look at it and commit it.
You should submit unified diffs using "-u":
diff -u Portfile.orig Portfile > Portfile.diff
Mark