On Oct 13, 2015, at 9:35 PM, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
> On Oct 13, 2015, at 5:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Oct 13, 2015, at 2:43 PM, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
>> 
>>> It turns out that for the moment 2. didn’t work, as you had suggested, it 
>>> seems that there is a bug that the OpenModelica has to fix for the new 
>>> qt4-mac layout.  Is there any documentation, or hints, explaining the new 
>>> layout, or what changes might be necessary?  Any guidance that I can pass 
>>> along to those developers would be appreciated.  
>>> For now, I ended up doing 2, then having to downgrade qt4-mac as well, to 
>>> get it to build, ,then having to downgrade a few other ports, to go with 
>>> the old qt4-mac layout.
>> 
>> I believe the intention is that if the port developer uses the qt4 1.0 or 
>> qmake 1.0 portgroups, and the variables therein, things should just work, 
>> and all that should be needed after the layout changes is a revbump to 
>> rebuild the port. 
> 
> The only info I can find is this:  
> https://guide.macports.org/chunked/reference.portgroup.html  and it doesn’t 
> say anything about qt4 or qmake.  Currently, the OpenModelica port doesn’t 
> use portgroups.  Any suggestions for how to potentially get that port to use, 
> would be very helpful.  That could potentially include incorporation of 
> portgroups in the port.  The existing port works with qt4 4.8.7_1 and now 
> fails with 4.8.7_2, and I am not really sure what variables are necessary, or 
> how to fix it.

Correct, many portgroup are not documented in the guide. In those situations, 
the documentation is the portgroup file itself -- the source code and any 
comments -- and also any existing ports using the portgroup.

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