xinstall glob question

[Joshua Root]

Darren Weber wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org
> <mailto: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
> 
> 
> 
> Will the tcl 'file copy' work recursively?  Some of the items from
> ${build.dir}/bin are .app directories.

Yes, see `man n file`. In Portfiles, you can use 'copy' as a synonym for
'file copy' BTW. <http://guide.macports.org/#reference.tcl-extensions>

- Josh