On Jul 10, 2014, at 11:11 PM, Bill Christensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 10, 2014, at 2:20 PM, Bill Christensen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I changed the setting in MacPorts' file from --with-mail-gid=_mailman to > > --with-mail-gid=staff and attempted to reinstall, but I'm getting an error > > that it's "Unable to open port - invalid command name > > '--with-mail-gid=staff'". > > You have a syntax error in your portfile. Perhaps you forgot to add the > backslash at the end of the preceding line. If you show us the modifications > you made, we made be able to be more precise. > > > Ok, got it. I had put a comment line directly above --with-mail-gid=staff to > remind myself what I had done. I had to pull that out of the > "configure.args" block. It also appears to work better if I abstract it a > bit by using; > > set mmgroup2 staff > > then after the note to myself so I can revert if needed, change the > --with-mail-gid as below > > > #BC MOD was --with-mail-gid=${mmgroup} \ > > configure.args > > --with-mail-gid=${mmgroup2} \ You can't do it that way because in the Tcl language, comments are extended to the next line by backslashes. You probably want to just put, in a section by itself: #BC MOD was --with-mail-gid=${mmgroup} set mmgroup2 staff configure.args-append --with-mail-gid=${mmgroup2} _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
