Re: Accessing a MacPorts tree from another [local] system

2024-08-12 Thread Frank Stock
eaders. I am > also not sure if baked in dylib paths follow through symlinks. > > Serge > On Aug 12, 2024 at 20:28 +0800, Frank Stock , wrote: >> Somewhat similar situation 6 months ago. Maybe its an idea that will help >> with what you want. >> I needed a MacPorts

Re: Accessing a MacPorts tree from another [local] system

2024-08-12 Thread Frank Stock
Somewhat similar situation 6 months ago. Maybe its an idea that will help with what you want. I needed a MacPorts install with a custom prefix on a 10.13.x machine. Custom prefix means you cannot use pre-built binaries, and at the time Rust and Cargo were not buildable on that platform. I ended

Humor + Thanks

2024-03-23 Thread Frank Stock
>On Mar 23, 2024, at 6:06 PM, Gagan Sidhu via macports-dev > wrote: >our snooty fink-derived alcohol competitor LOL Can I just say to every contributor (past and present) how much I appreciate the MacPorts architecture and design. Why anyone would intentionally *replace* *shared* system files i

Re: Portfile magic / xinstall usage / defect?

2023-12-13 Thread Frank Stock
Frank > On Dec 12, 2023, at 7:51 PM, Frank Stock wrote: > >> let's first confirm that pkgbuild and Installer.app behave this way > Confirmed :-) > > I’ve attached a few files to this email, but don’t know if attachements works > for the mailing list or not. &g

Re: Portfile magic / xinstall usage / defect?

2023-12-12 Thread Frank Stock
-rw-r--r-- 1 u_two g_two 10712 Aug 27 2020 port.h -rw-r--r-- 1 franks staff 2615 Aug 27 2020 types.h tst-pkg-file-owners.sh Description: Binary data > On Dec 9, 2023, at 11:45 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > > On 10/12/2023 16:33, Frank Stock wrote: >>

Re: Portfile magic / xinstall usage / defect?

2023-12-09 Thread Frank Stock
ine/plan for a PR. -Frank > On Dec 9, 2023, at 8:51 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > > (Moving to macports-dev) > > Frank Stock wrote: > >> My main focus is .pkg component installers targeting systems where a >> development toolchain is not realistic. >> >&g

Re: How to parse a Portfile?

2023-12-01 Thread Frank Stock
key $mport homepage'); console.log('homepage=' + result.data()); })('zlib'); > On Nov 30, 2023, at 7:05 PM, Joshua Root wrote: > > On 1/12/2023 11:27, Frank Stock wrote: >> Section 6.4.1 has an interesting bullet… >> "Ports API - API for Po

How to parse a Portfile?

2023-11-30 Thread Frank Stock
Section 6.4.1 has an interesting bullet… "Ports API - API for Portfile parsing and execution” I would like to extract information from a Portfile such as, version, license, add_users, startupitem, post-destroot, etc. for analysis/processing in a Node.js app. Thought I might be able to use a Tcl