On Nov 25, 2018, at 18:55, Joshua Root wrote:
>>> with 'LD = $(F77)’ in the Makefile, but that didn’t work. How should I pass
>>> this during build?
>>
>> I suppose that ought to work, except that perhaps the problem you're running
>> into is that ${build.args} is a list of values. If you want to concatenate
>> all those list items with spaces and include that expanded value in a
>> string, as you're doing here, you'll need to use the expand operator ({*}).
>> Technically, build.cmd and build.target (and all other MacPorts options) are
>> lists too, though they might only contain one item at the moment. To
>> properly expand all those lists into strings, you'd use: "{*}${build.cmd}
>> {*}${build.args} {*}${build.target}".
>
> The function of {*} is to pass a list to a command as multiple
> arguments, one per list element. That is not what's desired here, as the
> command to be run by system should be given in a single argument.
>
> Perhaps you were thinking of 'join'? But that shouldn't really be needed
> here either.
Perhaps I was. Ok, never mind then, I was just taking a wild stab at something
that might be wrong, given that the custom build phase seemed unnecessary and
therefore wrong, and since we weren't told in what way it "didn't work".
