On Apr 9, 2007, at 08:38, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
On Apr 9, 2007, at 4:39 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Which is why I'm looking for a solution within MacPorts, using
which I have been able to create a solution, in the form of the
patch attached to the ticket. I'm just looking for the most
elegant way to construct the patch, and any assistance in that
direction would be appreciated.
If the MacPorts commands I've found and used here are considered
to be internal and subject to change, then I request a public API
by which I can do what I'm trying to do.
You could make the php port a shell port which depended on other
ports (php5-apache2, php5-fastcgi, php5-apache1).
If I do that, how can I avoid each port (php5-apache2, php5-fastcgi,
etc.) having to download the php5 source again?
Another port, fftw-3, was recently rewritten [1] to use the former
zlib strategy for rebuilding itself twice, specifically to avoid
having two ports. Currently there is fftw-3 and fftw-3-single, with
the latter depending on the former. The two current fftw-3 ports do
both download the same source code, which is wasteful.
I'm not sure that making separate ports is the best strategy. The
FastCGI version of PHP is not a separate software package. Rather,
it's just one of the many ways in which PHP can be installed. It's a
variation, a variant. And it seems most logical that it be
implemented in MacPorts in that way, as a variant.
Isn't there a way in tcl to detect if a certain function exists? If
this were PHP code, I would just write
if (function_exists('command_exec')) {
...
}
Is there a tcl equivalent of that?
I note, by the way, that there are several other ports already using
the "command" command, which will break when MacPorts 1.5 (or
whatever version) is released which removes the "command" command:
dports $ grep '\[command' */*/Portfile
aqua/radassist/Portfile: system "[command patch] < \"$
{workpath}/patch-darwinports\""
devel/curlhandle/Portfile: system "[command build]"
devel/libsdl-framework/Portfile: system "[command build]"
net/nefu/Portfile: system "[command build]"
textproc/gpsbabel/Portfile: system "[command build]"
[1] Mailing list discussion:
http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2007-March/
001063.html
[2] Ticket with new portfile as attachment:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/11613
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