On Jan 17, 2008, at 08:08, Philip K.F. Hölzenspies wrote:
You'll have to excuse me for my ignorance with regards to
Portfiles, since I'm
a relative newbe ;)
Welcome to MacPorts!
I was playing around with the ghc Portfile in an attempt to update
it to the
newer ghc version. While playing with this portfile, I noticed that
quite a
few of the packages I need / use list perl 5.8.8 as a dependency.
Macports
assumes that the Development Tools are installed. In Leopard, the
DT package
includes perl 5.8.8 and quite a number of the p5-* packages.
The portfile database on macports.org/ports.php lists the perl
5.8.8 package
as having no maintainer. Thus, there seems to be no one to do my
work for
me ;)
What I wanted to ask is whether it is possible to create a "dummy"
Portfile
for Leopard. I tried simply adding the following to the existing
perl 5.8.8
Portfile, but ran into (no doubt obvious) trouble:
platform darwin 9 {
fetch {}
checksum {}
extract {}
patch {}
configure {}
build {}
test {}
destroot {}
}
Is there a cleaner / better way to say "this portfile is installed
by default
on this platform" or - better still - to check for it and based on
that check
do or do not do the install?
There are portfiles for many things that are already part of Mac OS
X. This is deliberate:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/
FAQ#WhyisMacPortsusingitsownlibraries
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