[41898] trunk/dports/gis

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 11, 2008, at 21:02, macsforever2000 at macports.org wrote:

> +set cgi_path "/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/"
> +
> +# apache macport interop
> +if {[ file exists ${prefix}/sbin/httpd]} {
> +    set cgi_path "${prefix}/www/cgi-bin/"
> +}

It's not good for a port to behave differently depending on what else  
the user has installed. A port should behave identically on  
everyone's system (modulo such details as OS version and processor  
architecture).

Instead, I recommend some variants to let the user select whether  
they want to use MacPorts Apache 1, MacPorts Apache 2, or whatever  
Apache Apple includes with Mac OS X.


variant apache conflicts apache2 apache_apple description {Use  
MacPorts Apache 1} {
	depends_run-append port:apache
	set cgi_path "${prefix}/www/cgi-bin/"
}

variant apache2 conflicts apache apache_apple description {Use  
MacPorts Apache 2} {
	depends_run-append port:apache2
	set cgi_path "${prefix}/apache2/cgi-bin/"
}

variant apache_apple conflicts apache apache2 description {Use Apple  
Apache} {
	set cgi_path "/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/"
}

if {![variant_isset apache] && ![variant_isset apache2] && ! 
[variant_isset apache_apple]} {
	default_variants +apache2
}


Actually there are also web servers other than Apache -- lighttpd for  
example...