Trouble installing powerDNS

[Daniel J. Luke]

On May 22, 2010, at 7:34 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>   if boost is installed
>>       -I/opt/local/include
>>   else
>>       download boost
>>       -Ifiles/whatever-boost-downloads-as/
>>   end if
>> 
>> Is that possible to do?  If it is possible, I will start looking at the docs for how, unless someone knows a port that does something similar that I can learn from.  Thanks.
> 
> Sounds possible. I doubt there's documentation on how to do this very specific thing.
> 
> I guess the code would run something like:
> 
> if ${prefix}/include/boost exists, do nothing
> 
> otherwise distfiles-append the boost distfile and configure.cppflags-append -I${worksrcpath}/boost-1.42.0
> 
> And you'd have to add the boost checksums and master_sites.

If there's no runtime dependency on the include files, it might make sense to just always download the boost distfile and use a portfile-local version of the includes while building.

That way, the build product will always be the same, and the portfile will be simpler.

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