Portfile for GEANT4

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 13, 2010, at 14:49, Joshua Root wrote:

> On 2010-1-14 06:48 , Cristiano Fontana wrote:
> 
>> What I am trying is to execute their configure script through port so I defined the following phases:
>> 
>> build {
>>    catch { exec /bin/sh -c "cd ${worksrcpath}; ${worksrcpath}/Configure -build -d -f ${worksrcpath}/config.sh" }
>> }
>> 
>> destroot {
>>    catch { exec /bin/sh -c "cd ${worksrcpath}; ${worksrcpath}/Configure -install" }
>> }
> 
> You should use the 'system' procedure to run shell commands. Like so:
> 
> build {
>    system "cd ${worksrcpath} && ./Configure -build -d -f config.sh"
> }
> 
> destroot {
>    system "cd ${worksrcpath} && ./Configure -install" }
> }
> 
> You could also achieve the same effect by setting build.cmd, build.args,
> build.target, etc. as needed, but this is so different to a standard
> autotools build that that is probably the messier route.

Personally, I would highly recommend trying to use build.cmd, build.args, etc, instead of overriding the phases.