[43188] trunk/dports/x11/xorg-server/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 7, 2008, at 21:34, Joshua Root wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Dec 7, 2008, at 04:56, Joshua Root wrote:
>>
>>> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Dec 6, 2008, at 19:22, jeremyhu at macports.org wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> +post-destroot {
>>>>> +    system "ln -s Xquartz ${prefix}/bin/X"
>>>>> +}
>>>>
>>>> You don't need to use "system" to make a symlink; just write:
>>>>
>>>> ln -s Xquartz ${prefix}/bin/X
>>>
>>> Actually I think maybe you do in this case. Tcl's 'file link'  
>>> won't work
>>> when the specified link target doesn't exist.
>>
>> Xquartz doesn't exist? Why would we want to create a symlink to
>> something that doesn't exist?
>
> ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/Xquartz exists, but Xquartz doesn't exist
> unless the interpreter's working directory is ${destroot}${prefix}/ 
> bin,
> which I don't think is the case.
>
> And to answer your question more generally, you often want to link to
> something in ${prefix} which won't be there until the port is  
> activated.


Surely MacPorts doesn't have a problem creating such symlinks... I do  
that in several of my ports: graphviz/graphviz-devel, oracle- 
instantclient...