xinstall glob question

[Darren Weber]

Maybe this project is onto something to tcl debugging:
http://dashx.wiki.sourceforge.net/Scripting-Tcl


On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Darren Weber <dweber at macports.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org>wrote:
>
>> Darren Weber wrote:
>> > The {!<pattern>} syntax is supposed to NOT that file name <pattern>.  I
>> > have a directory of binary executables among a lot of .dylib files and I
>> > want to exclude all the .dylib files from the glob.
>>
>> Tcl's glob is unable to invert a pattern. As you say, {!...} is not
>> going to work.
>>
>> Some example how I would do this (untested!):
>>
>> foreach f [glob ${build.dir}/bin/*] {
>>   if {![string match {*.dylib} ${f}]} {
>>     file copy ${f} ${destroot}/${vtkExamplePath}/bin/
>>   }
>> }
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>
>
> OK, this looks promising.  I forget how to drop into a tcl shell while
> running macports.  It would be really nice to be able to set a breakpoint in
> a Portfile somehow.
>
> In python, we can import the pydb module and call it at any point in the
> program, eg:
>
> http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/pydb/pydb/lib/subsection-calling-pydb-inside-program.html
>
> Does tcl have an equivalent?  How would you set a breakpoint in a Portfile?
>
> Take care, Darren
>
>
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