On Dec 31, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Mark Duling wrote:

Doug McCorkle <mccdo@iastate.edu> on Saturday, December 30, 2006 at 6:38 PM -0800 wrote:

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Hello, I am trying to create a Portfile for gmtl and am getting an error on the archive step.

DEBUG: Skipping completed com.apple.destroot (gmtl) ---> Packaging tgz archive for gmtl 0.4.12_0 DEBUG: Executing com.apple.archive (gmtl) Error: Target com.apple.archive returned: error copying "/opt/local/ var/db/dports/build/_Volumes_data_dports-dev_devel_gmtl/ work/.darwinports.gmtl.state" to "/opt/local/var/db/dports/build/ _Volumes_data_dports-dev_devel_gmtl/work/destroot/+STATE": no such file or directory Warning: the following items did not execute (for gmtl): com.apple.activate com.apple.archive com.apple.install Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

From above the destroot dir is not present in the work dir.

I have followed the tutorial instructions and looked at some examples but can not seem to make it work. Any suggestions on how to make the file work is appreciated. Thanks.

If destdir is not present in the workdir then something is wrong with the app's makefile. Look at the verbose output of the build and see if you can tell why. You may use -vdt, the -t tells you if the files are writing outside of destroot stright into ${prefix} as happens with poorly written apps. So you can either figure out the problem and patch the Makefile or whatever scripts do the installing (and submit the patches upstream for later inclusion), or if the app is very simple and/or the routines more complex than you'd like to deal with now you can just simultaneously turn off the developers install and copy the files that should be installed via MacPorts.

Like this:

destroot { xinstall ${worksrcpath}/lib/foo1 ${destroot}${prefix}/lib/ foo1 etc }

I just did exactly that just now with a new port named nspr. And sometimes I do the latter and later realize or figure out what is the problem and go back and revise the port with a patched Makefile and send the patch upstream to the developers so they can fix it more permanently and our portfiles get cleaned up over time. Using the Makefile is always better if you can, but some Makefiles are so broken and the app so trival or old that it isn't always feasible or worth the time to fix them.

Mark

Thanks for the pointers Mark. I think part of the issue here is that the library is just header files so there is nothing really compiled only installed. I think the SConscripts are well written so I do not believe those are the problems. I think in this case your example will help solve the problem. Doug