macports guide

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Jun 9, 2009, at 9:05 AM, Blair Zajac wrote:

>
> On Jun 9, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>
>> http://guide.macports.org/chunked/reference.tcl-extensions.html
>>
>> Paths seem to not include trailing slashes.
>>
>> I thought it was weird that ${destroot} would include a trailing  
>> slash.
>> ${destroot}${prefix} is shown several times on the above page.
>
> That works because ${prefix} begins with a slash and if you had one  
> there then you would have double slashes.  ${destroot} doesn't have  
> a trailing slash.
>
> But in the following case it looks like it was ${destroot}Library/ 
> LaunchDaemons which does need a slash.
>
> So I think it's best to only have slashes when you have an absolute  
> path following it.

Thanks for the reply.

This is the type of think I was talking about where dumping ports vars  
to screen would be helpful.

For now I guess I'll just add ui_msg's to all the vars to reveal their  
values.

// Brad