Benoit Chesneau [2007-07-29, 19:55:18]: > Hi, > > I needed for a project xapian, a search engine librayry on openbsd. > So, find enclosed ports for xapian and its bindings for python, ruby > and php. Ports were tested on i386, and python binding work fine. > Please tell me if it's ok for you. > > I have made one port for xapian binding, php, python and ruby could be > installed after. Is this the way to do it or should I use > multipackages ? Problem with multi packages and flavors is that there > isn't a main package, so I have to choose default language for main. > Another way would be having one xapian package with flavors to add > bindings. Tell me what is the preferred way.
This looks like a good candidate for MULTI_PACKAGES. You can also add a no_bindings pseudo flavor, like the subversion port has, for instance. Note that there does not need to be a "main" package, you can name the packages anything you prefer. You also need to fix the port so it builds the shared library version that is mentioned in SHARED_LIBS (i.e. changing SHARED_LIBS should lead to a different library version number being built). This may require some patching, but there are many examples in the tree.
