new perl portgroup and svk
Joshua Root
jmr at macports.org
Tue Aug 16 13:28:51 PDT 2011
On 2011-8-17 06:10 , Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> I was looking at fixing svk (which is nomaintainer now), but I ran into a little issue that I'm not sure how to fix.
>
> The port name is 'svk', but it uses the perl portgroup.
>
> I can update the dependencies to use ${perl5.major} like I've seen elsewhere, but since it sets name (to svk), things still don't work right.
>
> I can set name before perl5.setup, but the portgroup expects the name to start with p5-, so when it creates the sub-ports, it can't create good names for them ([string range svk 3 end] doesn't really work as a rootname).
>
> Is there something I'm missing?
Ah. It's calling perl5.setup but not using a p5-* name. I didn't think
anything did that.
I guess either it needs to become p5-svk, or the portgroup needs to work
like the python one and not declare subports when the name doesn't have
the expected prefix.
- Josh
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