On Sep 13, 2013, at 7:05 AM, Patrick Doyle wrote:

> I feel like I should have the proper skills to contribute a patch for a 
> broken port, but I am lacking even the first clue as to where to start.
> 
> I just tried installing the gcl (GNU Common Lisp) port and it failed.  
> Following the instructions on the wiki, I have filed ticket #40468.
> 
> Suppose I wanted to contribute a patch to fix this problem myself.  Where 
> would I start?  Illustrating the amount of my cluelessness:
> 
> 1) Where would I learn how MacPorts builds packages from a portfile?

You might scan this as well:
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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