selfupdate with GNUstep

2007-08-13 Thread Anders F Björklund
When using port selfupdate on platforms other than Mac OS X (such as Darwin, FreeBSD, Linux and probably most others too) it fails to find Foundation unless you set the environment up: checking for Apple Objective-C runtime... no checking for GNU Objective C runtime... yes configure: Using GNU

Using CVS [was Re: Cvs variant in portfile]

2007-08-13 Thread Landon Fuller
On Aug 10, 2007, at 18:17, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I'm trying to figure out why you don't just fetch from CVS all the time Why do we allow fetching from CVS in the standard ports tree? There's no way to validate the downloaded files (ie, checksums), and it's completely non-deterministic.

Re: [27700] trunk/dports/devel/distract/Portfile

2007-08-13 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 12, 2007, at 05:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Revision: 27700 http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/27700 Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2007-08-12 03:59:12 -0700 (Sun, 12 Aug 2007) Log Message: --- Add dependency on monotone and update other

Re: Using CVS [was Re: Cvs variant in portfile]

2007-08-13 Thread Landon Fuller
On Aug 13, 2007, at 17:05, N_Ox wrote: Le 14 août 07 à 01:49, Landon Fuller a écrit : On Aug 10, 2007, at 18:17, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I'm trying to figure out why you don't just fetch from CVS all the time Why do we allow fetching from CVS in the standard ports tree? There's no way

Re: [27705] trunk/dports/x11/gtk2/Portfile

2007-08-13 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Aug 12, 2007, at 10:40, N_Ox wrote: Le 12 août 07 à 16:39, Randall Wood a écrit : On 12 Aug 2007, at 10:23, N_Ox wrote: Le 12 août 07 à 15:57, Randall Wood a écrit : What would be the best way to check for darwin platforms with a version less than 8 in a Portfile? On 12 Aug 2007, at

Re: [27705] trunk/dports/x11/gtk2/Portfile

2007-08-13 Thread N_Ox
Le 14 août 07 à 02:54, Ryan Schmidt a écrit : On Aug 12, 2007, at 10:40, N_Ox wrote: Le 12 août 07 à 16:39, Randall Wood a écrit : On 12 Aug 2007, at 10:23, N_Ox wrote: Le 12 août 07 à 15:57, Randall Wood a écrit : What would be the best way to check for darwin platforms with a

Re: Using CVS [was Re: Cvs variant in portfile]

2007-08-13 Thread N_Ox
Le 14 août 07 à 02:19, Landon Fuller a écrit : On Aug 13, 2007, at 17:05, N_Ox wrote: Le 14 août 07 à 01:49, Landon Fuller a écrit : On Aug 10, 2007, at 18:17, Ryan Schmidt wrote: I'm trying to figure out why you don't just fetch from CVS all the time Why do we allow fetching from

Re: The mtree and man pages

2007-08-13 Thread N_Ox
Le 14 août 07 à 03:17, Randall Wood a écrit : I have noticed that almost 1840 ports have configure.args set to install man pages in ${prefix}/share/man instead of the default location ${prefix}/man and that the mtree-violation code does not like ${prefix}/man. Can we allow ${prefix}/man

Tcl Portfile stuff - was .. trunk/dports/x11/gtk2/Portfile

2007-08-13 Thread markd
N_Ox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Beats me. This statement is not documented in man portfile or in the guide at http://geeklair.net/new_macports_guide This is a standard TCL procedure, see return(n). I'm not familiar with standard TCL procedures, and I'd estimate most port authors aren't.

Re: The mtree and man pages

2007-08-13 Thread Boey Maun Suang
On 14/08/2007, at 11:17, Randall Wood wrote: Can we allow ${prefix}/man to be used and perhaps even set it to be the preferred location for man pages since it seems to fit more with the UNIX default location? From what I can tell, all major Linux distributions have moved to placing man

Re: Tcl Portfile stuff - was .. trunk/dports/x11/gtk2/Portfile

2007-08-13 Thread markd
N_Ox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the best link for Tcl reference? http://tmml.sourceforge.net/doc/ tcl/ Mark A great thanks for your link, way nicer than the official tcl documentation. You mean the Sourceforge Tcl link? Is that not the official docs? I just Googled it up. But now

Re: [27700] trunk/dports/devel/distract/Portfile

2007-08-13 Thread markd
Boey Maun Suang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm afraid that I haven't given much thought to committer docs yet. I suppose it might fit okay in the MacPorts Project section, but I'm not completely sure it belongs in the guide and not on the Wiki. I'm not sure I like that in the guide, but as