How to request MacPorts to add a port?

[Scott Haneda]

On Jun 22, 2009, at 2:24 AM, Scott wrote:

> QUESTION 3:
> Can anyone just point me to an explanation?  Can anyone use URLtoys
> on Mac OS X?  If you look around you'll see that lots of Mac folks
> have tk problems:
>
> http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=39593


I think that link more or less explains it, this is not a MacPorts  
issue, or a CPAN issue.

I installed as per these instructions:
http://www.urltoys.com/linux.php

libwww-perl
libterm-readline-gnu-perl
perl-tk

In MacPorts terminology, that means:
   p5-libwww-perl @5.826_0 (active)
   p5-term-readline-gnu @1.16_0 (active)
   p5-tk @804.028_0 (active)

And of course
   p5-www-urltoys @1.28_0 (active)

Downloaded the urltoysw.pl file, and ran it, after altering the  
starting line to point to MacPorts perl.

I get ./urltoysw.pl
Bus error

This is consistent with the problems listed at this url:
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=39593

The last comment, only 2 months old, shows the same issue.  Everyone  
seems to get a bus error.  You will need to report this bug to the tk  
developers, and have them work it out, then update tk.

Seems MacPorts knows about this as well:
   http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18391
That just points back to the links you found
   http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=39593

At this point, this is nothing you are doing wrong, but something that  
the people behind the upstream software are going to need to fix.
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