Using MacPorts to build from source directory

[Andrea D'Amore]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Oliver King-Smith <oliverks1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am trying to update one of the MacPorts for the magic VLSI program.

What are you exactly trying to do?
Consider that you could just file a ticket in http://trac.macports.org
asking the maintainer, waqar, to upgrade the port to 7.5.206 .
If you are trying to build 8.x you should rather create a magic-devel
port as that version is still in development.

> It would be convenient to run MacPorts in such a fashion where it can just
> use a local directory for the source files as opposed to grabbing a tar ball
> from an http or ftp server.   This would allow me to make changes to source
> code and then rebuild more quickly.

As you have already been told MacPorts will only fetch the file if it
is nedded, i.e. it is not present in distfiles directory, that is a
local directory.

> Any suggestion would be appreciated

Actually I'm not sure about what your problem is.

> Oliver

Bye

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Andrea