reduce-algebra portfile

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Dec 13 19:09:32 PST 2011


On Dec 13, 2011, at 21:07, Mark Brethen wrote:

> 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?

We usually prefer to build from source, since compiled software generally differs among the four processor architectures and four OS X versions we support.

For ports that don't install binaries (for example: java archives) there's usually less of a reason to compile it ourselves.





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