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

2016-07-16 Thread Joshua Root
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 want you to run configure with an argument indicating the install prefix, then don't seem to support DESTROOT. I've gone to upstream t

Re: Removing --prefix from args to configure

2016-07-16 Thread Joshua Root
On 2016-7-17 16:02 , Watson Ladd wrote: 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, Wa

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

2016-07-16 Thread Joshua Root
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 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

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

Re: Always indicating license versions (was: Re: [150207] trunk/dports/perl/p5-net-cidr-lite/Portfile)

2016-07-16 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Jul 15, 2016, at 11:21 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> so you're really just advocating that we remove the un-versioned license >> shortcut totally? > > For licenses that have versions, I suppose yes, I am advocating that we > always specify the version. ok. > I'm just suggesting we make a poli