How to submit an updated portfile on new system?

2016-11-03 Thread Watson Ladd
Dear all, A new version of Pari has come out, and I will update the portfile soon. However, I haven't found new git compatible workflow documentation anywhere. Should I still do the old-fashioned make a patch and submit in a ticket, or should I fork the repo, modify it, and submit a pull request?

Re: Software that doesn't use DESTROOT and funny tarball directories

2016-07-19 Thread Watson Ladd
On Jul 19, 2016 8:38 AM, "Daniel J. Luke" wrote: > > On Jul 19, 2016, at 8:19 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > This is one of the problems with projects that roll their own nonstandard configure scripts and Makefiles -- they don't work the way anybody unfamiliar with that project expects. Developers w

Re: Software that doesn't use DESTROOT and funny tarball directories

2016-07-19 Thread Watson Ladd
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Jul 19, 2016, at 7:13 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Jul 17, 2016, at 12:31 AM, Watson Ladd wrote: >> >>> The problem is that >>> they want you to run configure with an argument indicating the in

Re: Software that doesn't use DESTROOT and funny tarball directories

2016-07-17 Thread Watson Ladd
On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2016-7-17 16:16 , Joshua Root wrote: >> >> On 2016-7-17 15:31 , Watson Ladd wrote: >>> >>> Dear all, >>> I'm trying to write a portfile for ChezScheme. The problem is that >>> they w

Removing --prefix from args to configure

2016-07-16 Thread Watson Ladd
Dear all, ChezScheme takes installprefix, not prefix as an arg, and having prefix confuses it. I don't understand how to remove this unwanted argument as I never put it in in the first place. I think once I have this the portfile will be done. Sincerely, Watson _

Software that doesn't use DESTROOT and funny tarball directories

2016-07-16 Thread Watson Ladd
Dear all, I'm trying to write a portfile for ChezScheme. The problem is that they want you to run configure with an argument indicating the install prefix, then don't seem to support DESTROOT. I've gone to upstream to report this, but I understand there is black magic we could use instead. The sec