Writing Portfiles: how to run custom scripts

[Anders F Björklund]

Michael Wild wrote:

> I'm trying to write up some Portfile for me and came across some 
> problems. The upstream source is in cvs and uses 
> automake/autoconf/libtool. My problem is now: how do I run aclocal, 
> autoheader and libtoolize from the Portfile? I can run automake and 
> autoconf, but as far as i can see, there is no way running custom 
> scripts/commands, right?

There are the "use_autoconf" and "use_automake" built-ins, but those 
two fail to depend on autoconf/automake and as far as I know there is 
nothing for autoheader/libtoolize, should that be needed ?

Probably needs to be expanded to allow for several versions of each (in 
parallell), and easier support for doing a complete 
"autogen"/"bootstrap" (libtoolize+aclocal+autoheader+automake+autoconf)

For now, use "system". (Or if upstream has a script, use that)
--anders