<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank you.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I ended up refactoring the Portfile to use the default configure/build/destroot functionality.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was not aware that a side effect of writing one’s own build {} etc. blocks is that it blows away the automatic setting of environments variables in build.env.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for suggesting—that may be useful some day.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Steve<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 1, 2022, at 5:06 PM, Joshua Root <<a href="mailto:jmr@macports.org" class="">jmr@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On 2022-9-1 21:51 , Steven Smith wrote:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">How does one convert a build.env list into a working string for sh env?<br class="">If I specify this build.env<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">build.env-append \<br class=""> CC=${<a href="http://configure.cc/" class="">configure.cc</a><<a href="http://configure.cc/" class="">http://configure.cc</a>>} \<br class="">"CFLAGS=${configure.cflags} [get_canonical_archflags cc]"<br class=""></blockquote>and later say something like<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">system "env ${build.env}"<br class=""></blockquote>This tcl string with braces ‘{…}’ is passed to the shell, which breaks:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">env CC=/usr/bin/clang {CFLAGS=-Os -arch x86_64}<br class=""></blockquote>Rather, I need a port file command that converts build.env to:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">env CC=/usr/bin/clang CFLAGS="-Os -arch x86_64"<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Ideally you would run this as part of build.cmd (or some other command) and have MacPorts set up the environment directly for you. But if you have to do it this way, something like this should work:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">foreach e ${build.env} {</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""> lappend envargs [shellescape $e]</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">}</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">system "env [join $envargs] ..."</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">- Josh</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>