On 2013-08-31 18:49, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Aug 31, 2013, at 11:46, Hermann Peifer wrote:
On 2013-08-31 18:25, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
It is not supported for end users to override portfile internals (like
configure.args) at the command line. It is sometimes a useful diagnostic step
when we're trying to figure out a problem, but it is not supposed to be an
everyday activity for users. What you're doing wrong is that you're *setting*
configure.args, *overriding* the dozens of configure.args the portfile already
sets that make it function correctly. But there is no syntax for appending to
(rather than overriding) configure.args (or any other internal portfile option)
at the command line.
Hmm. I thought about this, but I am actually not overriding anything, as far as
I can see. The Portfile only defines configure.args-append and
configure.args-delete, but not configure.args itself. So I thought I would be
on the safe side.
$ grep configure.args
/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports/gis/gdal/Portfile
configure.args-append \
configure.args-delete --without-lzma
configure.args-append --with-lzma=${prefix}
…
Command line options override any MacPorts defaults or anything the portfile
sets. So the portfile appends its configure args to the (empty) configure.args
variable, and then finally at the command line, you override it with your value.
Thanks for the hints. I didn't know. Funny enough, the installation
seemed to work fine, after I "fixed" the missing library issue through
symlinks.
So I better do not use configure.args on the command line. Is editing
the Portfile a safe option? Probably not, I would assume :-(
I have a similar issue with libkml, where gdal expects version >= 1.3.0
(never released, only available from trunk). So I would have to install
libkml under /opt/local rather than anywhere else which would require
the configure argument --with-libkml=/path/to/libkml
Hermann
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