Drew McCormack wrote:
I want to use macports to build self contained bundles, containing a tool and any dependencies of that tool. For example, I want to distribute an FFTW package that installs into /Users/Shared/FFTW. Under that directory would be the usual bin, lib etc:

/Users/Shared/FFTW/bin
/Users/Shared/FFTW/lib ...

Any libraries that FFTW uses would also be included in that bundle.

My question is: how could I do this with macports? I thought it would be a simple matter of changing the install prefix in macports.conf:

prefix                  /Users/Shared/FFTW

But when I do this, I get error messages indicating I haven't setup the prefix dir properly:

Library directory '/Users/Shared/OpenMacPorts/share/macports/Tcl' must exist
    while executing
"mportinit ui_options global_options global_variations"
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Failed to initialize ports system, Library directory '/Users/Shared/OpenMacPorts/share/macports/Tcl' must exist

Is there a straightforward way to do what I want? Basically I want to have control over the install directory, such that I can change it at will.

I would add something like --with-tclpackage=/Users/Shared/OpenMacPorts/lib/tcl/macports

to the configure step.  I've had no issues when I do this.

Regards,
Blair

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