Ryan, thanks for the advice, I will file a ticket in the issue tracker.
On 3/27/20, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mar 27, 2020, at 02:41, a wrote: > >> Hello I am trying to use macports to install a package, SDRAngel. >> The software installs perfectly using the ports, thanks to the >> maintainer. >> However, I would like to rebuild it to use a plugin library which is >> not part of the main package. >> >> The documentation says: >> "For mbelibsupport you will need to specify the -DUSE_MBELIB=ON >> directive on the cmake command line and you will need to have mbelib >> installed in your system." >> >> I believe I have compiled the library to the correct location, but now >> I am unsure how to tell macports to use this command when building the >> package. >> >> I am very new to this and I do not even know what to search for this, >> I apologize if this is a simple common problem. Thanks! > > MacPorts isn't intended to allow users to specify arbitrary cmake flags like > that, and it's also not intended for ports to be able to use libraries you > have compiled by hand and installed somewhere. Instead, the maintainer of a > port decides what options to enable and what variants to present to the user > to allow them to influence the build in a limited set of ways that the > maintainer has verified and approved, using libraries installed by other > MacPorts ports. > > Please file a ticket in our issue tracker asking the maintainer of the > SDRAngel port to add an mbelib variant. We already have a port in MacPorts > for mbelib, and the SDRAngel port already has many variants for enabling > such optional functionality, it just doesn't have one for mbelib yet. > > > >
