On Sep 18, 2018, at 13:04, Mark Brethen wrote:
>
> More feedback from the developer:
>
>> Supposing that a profile.dat is available in csl/generated-c (as it is when
>> one has fetched from subversion, and it will be in some future snapshots,
>> but is NOT in the files you unpack from the .tar file in the mac snapshot
>> directory unless you may yourself a private very very new one to play with).
>> then the full recipe to build everything is
>> ./configure --with-csl; ./configure --with-psl; make
>>
>> That sets up to build all necessary components and regenerate all the things
>> that normally need regenerating.
>>
>> profile.dat CAN be created from scratch but you will not want to do that.
>>
>
> Is it possible to issue more than one configure statement before make in a
> port file?
Yes...
Just using a pre-configure or post-configure block to run ./configure via
system would probably not be best, because when MacPorts runs ./configure, it
supplies lots of environment variables, which running it via system would not
automatically supply.
A hack I've used before (in the php-1.1.tcl portgroup, for example) is to call
portconfigure::configure_main to get MacPorts to run configure again, after
changing some options. For example you might do:
configure.args --with-csl
post-configure {
configure.args-replace --with-csl --with-psl
portconfigure::configure_main
}
Technically ports are not supposed to use things like
portconfigure::configure_main because it's not part of the official exposed
MacPorts API, so theoretically it could change in the future and the port would
break... but it should work for now.
