Hi, > I've been trying to solve this problem, but tiff's build system is > horrible and is not making it easy for me. Here's the ticket under > which I'm working on this: > > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/43642
We could add a way for Portfiles to request being run in trace mode automatically for problematic ports like this one. That would solve this problem on all systems that support trace mode (and the ones that don't aren't very relevant anymore anyway). I'm thinking of $phase.trace with a default value of "auto" which would obey the command line flag and the values "off" for ports that break with trace mode and "always" for cases like tiff. That being said, the issue at hand is currently not mitigated by trace mode, because tiff's configure picks up X libs at /usr/X11/lib and includes at /usr/X11/include, but /usr/X11 is a symlink to /opt/X11 with XQuartz installed. Trace mode currently only checks the last component of a path for symlinks for performance reasons. If we had better caching I'd enable checking for (and expansion of) symlinks at every path component. That would also be desirable for Qt-based projects, which heavily use directory symlinks in their build process. -- Clemens Lang _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
