[MacPorts] #22716: Build and Use Macports on a Linux System

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#22716: Build and Use Macports on a Linux System
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 Reporter:  mmpestorich@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  request                |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Not set                |   Milestone:  MacPorts Future                      
Component:  base                   |     Version:  1.8.99                               
 Keywords:  linux                  |        Port:                                       
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 I recently got the trunk to compile on my Linux system and thought I would
 share the few things I had to do in order to get it to do so.

 I created a patch that adds strlcpy() to
 [source:/trunk/base/src/pextlib1.0/tracelib.c pextlib1.0/tracelib.c] and
 sysctlbyname() to [source:trunk/base/src/macports1.0/sysctl.c
 macports1.0/sysctl.c]. These C Library functions are available in BSDs but
 not in Linux. I pulled these implementations from OpenBSD.

 After a successful ''make'' and ''make install'', running the ''port''
 command would segfault on {{{unsetenv *}}} in
 [source:/trunk/base/src/port1.0/portutil.tcl port1.0/portutil.tcl] on
 [source:/trunk/base/src/port1.0/portutil.tcl at 60372#L394 Line #394].
 So I simply removed the line of code (probably not the best fix):
 {{{
 sed -i "s:unsetenv \*::" ${PREFIX}/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/portutil.tcl
 }}}

 Seems to run with no problems.

 Don't know if anyone would be interested in any of this and not sure that
 creating a ticket is the right place for this information, but it would be
 nice to see macports supported on the linux platform as it's a fantastic
 package management tool.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/22716>
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