I would like to use MacPorts to work on several large projects hosted on
github, that I clone locally and add incremental patches to. Think LLVM, qt4,
qt5, etc, etc.
During the MacPorts build, I would like MacPorts to use my local cloned folder
of source as the source code for the build. For incremental patches, which I
seem to do a lot of, this would be a real timesaver.
I have not (yet) come across this MacPorts feature, if it exists.
I am thinking perhaps that the “fetch” phase of the portfile could be
overridden with something that makes a symlink from the source folder into the
appropriate place in the work folder?
Like maybe something like this?
fetch {
system “ln -s /path/to/my/source/folder ${worksrcpath}
}
If not, what “ln -s” line would be the safest, so as to not somehow trash my
source folder?
Or some parameter that points to the source that might be modified to do that?
set ${worksrcpath} /path/to/my/sourcecode
It comes to mind that I can’t possibly be the first person who ever asked for
this — is this an existing feature of MacPorts I haven’t used?
Best,
Ken
