portfile and install scripts

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 12, 2009, at 05:52, Jack Howarth wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 01:54:38AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>
>> Ok, looks like a shell script with some variable substitution.  
>> MacPorts
>> portfiles have (more verbosely-named) variables for the same kinds of
>> things, but portfiles are Tcl scripts, not shell scripts.
>
>   One question on that. If push came to shove and you absolutely  
> needed
> a shell script, wouldn't it be possible to just add patches to the  
> package
> the could create an shell script that could be executed 'sh  
> build_script.sh'
> from within the appropriate phase? Not that I would resort to that  
> but it
> seemed like a possible last resort option if necessary.

Yes, you can run shell commands or entire shell scripts from Tcl if  
you need to. But when there's no need to, we would like to see  
Portfiles do things in Tcl, because that is the language we've chosen  
for Portfiles, the language other Portfiles are written in, and the  
language other Portfile authors know.