On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-7-17 16:16 , Joshua Root wrote: >> >> On 2016-7-17 15:31 , Watson Ladd wrote: >>> >>> Dear all, >>> I'm trying to write a portfile for ChezScheme. The problem is that >>> they want you to run configure with an argument indicating the install >>> prefix, then don't seem to support DESTROOT. I've gone to upstream to >>> report this, but I understand there is black magic we could use >>> instead. >> >> >> Sometimes telling such a build system that the install prefix is >> ${destroot}${prefix} will work OK. (But not always.) > > > I looked at their configure script on github and it looks like they support > a destroot but call it temproot. So it seems you should pass > --temproot=${destroot} to configure. > > - Josh
Thanks very much for your help. I got it working that way and filed a ticket with the portfile. Probably needs some cleanup by someone more familiar with what we want. -- "Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains". --Rousseau. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
