[64850] trunk/dports/devel/hs-utf8-string/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 19, 2010, at 07:48, Gregory Wright wrote:
> On 3/19/10 6:08 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> I see you adding these things to a lot of haskell ports. Is it perhaps appropriate to make the haskell portgroup do this automatically?
>   
> I have no objection to this.  The "-v" is just to generate verbose output, so there
> is something to look at when port is run with "-d" or "-v".
> 
> The --with-ghc=${configure.cc} is always needed to prevent the cabal library
> (which does the configure, build and install work) from using the first thing
> name "gcc" on the $PATH.
> 
> And there won't be universal variants of haskell ports any time soon.

Ok, feel free to make the changes to the haskell portgroup then.

I also noticed you adding "depends_lib port:ghc" to many haskell ports. The haskell portgroup already adds "depends_build port:ghc" but if depends_lib is more appropriate, maybe that should be changed in the portgroup too.

You're probably one of the most qualified people to make changes to that portgroup, since you know about haskell things, so feel free to make whatever changes you feel are appropriate. The portgroups are there to factor common code out of ports, so if you find you're repeating yourself in portfiles, it's probably time to move the repetitive code to the portgroup.