On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:33:10 -0500 Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > On Apr 17, 2018, at 12:39, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > > Just to be clear: I know what is in: > > https://guide.macports.org/#reference.phases > > > > but I'm trying to figure out a bit more detail. In particular, I > > _suspect_ what I want is to trick opam into installing its build > > products into the destdir, but I'm not sure that's the right > > approach. > > Certainly, at minimum, that would be needed. > > What else do you want to know? >
Maybe I should ask this a bit differently. Are there other precedents for using a "foreign" packaging or build system and tricking it into building stuff for macports that I could study and possibly steal pieces of? (Mostly I think OCaml users should be using opam if they're doing development work and the like, but if someone is interested in a piece of software that merely uses OCaml and they're not interested in the OCaml ecosystem itself, it should be possible for them to do that without needing to know about opam etc., which means that a limited number of ocaml packages need to be cleanly set up to work inside MacPorts, and by far the easiest way to do that is to use opam.) Perry -- Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com