I did find it odd that ginac-devel is not  available at the GiNaC website. 
However Octave-Forge lists ginac-devel as a build dependency for the symbolic 
package. Should this make a difference?

-Mark



On Jul 2, 2011, at 11:58 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 
> On Jul 2, 2011, at 22:04, mark brethen wrote:
> 
>> There's an octave package (symbolic) I wanted to install, but the portfile 
>> doesn't exist, and it requires ginac-devel, which contains the libraries, 
>> include files and other resources you use to develop GiNaC applications.
> 
> FYI, some other package managers have this distinction of binaries in the foo 
> port and include files and other resources in a corresponding foo-devel port. 
> MacPorts does not have this distinction. Everything you need for GiNaC should 
> be in the GiNaC port. If it is not, file an enhancement request ticket. Also, 
> it appears not to be up-to-date. If you require a newer version of GiNaC than 
> is in MacPorts, you should file a port update request ticket.
> 
> MacPorts does have -devel ports, but they serve an entirely different and 
> unrelated purpose, described here:
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/14540
> 
> 
> 

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