Best practices for port testing environment?

2020-06-27 Thread David Richmond
New here to hacking on MacPorts; please talk to me like I'm dumb. Can anyone point me to a resource (or offer their own thoughts) on setting up test environments for ports? The MacPorts Guide obviously describes setting up a local repository, but if I am, say, chasing a bug down during build, what

Re: Best practices for port testing environment?

2020-07-03 Thread David Richmond
Thanks! Maybe this would have worked well had I been debugging a port? I ended up installing a second MacPorts in a different prefix (/opt/macports-test). David On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 9:31 AM Joshua Root wrote: > On 2020-6-28 00:23 , David Richmond wrote: > > New here to hacking on

Building GTK-dependents +quartz vs. +x11

2020-07-03 Thread David Richmond
I saw some old discussion on the user list ( https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-users/2016-October/042063.html) about some challenges of +quartz / +x11 builds and conflicts with GTK. So I don't think (?) the following behavior is a bug. I was working on documentation (and will ultimatel