On Mar 14, 2010, at 08:49, Tabitha McNerney wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Rainer Müller wrote: >> On 2010-03-05 19:09 , Tabitha McNerney wrote: >> > I have what I hope is a simple question about ncurses and ncursesw. I'm >> > essentially wondering what the difference is between these two ports? I >> > noticed their checksums (for the source are the same), so why not just >> > combine them into one port? >> >> ncursesw provides wide-character support. But usually we want both, wide >> and narrow characters, thus we need to compile the library twice with >> different configure flags (--enable-widec for ncursesw). A Portfile can >> only handle one run of configure/make/make install, therefore we need >> two Portfiles for this. > > Thank you for answering this question. It seems that this is a restriction > imposed based on how MacPorts were designed. If someone were to build ncurses > with both wide and narrow characters from the same single source tarball, > would they also have to do something similar with ./configure that is > analogous to MacPorts treatment of two separate port files, or would it be > feasible to just do this all at once?
Based on what Rainer said, it sounds like you need to configure, build, and install twice: once each for narrow and wide character support. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
