reduce-algebra portfile

[Mark Brethen]

Fetching the binaries has been proven to work, however destroot is rather messy. Compiling from source may or may not work but destroot will be rather simple since it creates a bootstrap image file. Which path would you choose?


On Dec 13, 2011, at 6:53 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Dec 13, 2011, at 18:38, Mark Brethen wrote:
> 
>> I found the url that is used to download the files in an xport.pat file (first line looks like "Master http://www.zib.de/...")in the /psl directory. The portfile uses "fetch.type          svn" to fetch Reduce. Is it permissible to have multiple fetch types in a single portfile?
> 
> No, a port can only use one fetch type.
> 
> Can reduce fetch from http instead? That would be preferable anyway.
> 
> If not ,you would have to write your own http fetch code in a post-fetch block.
> 



Mark