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 > > > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
