reduce-algebra portfile

Mark Brethen mark.brethen at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 19:20:09 PST 2011


Ah, config.guess has an old timestamp and newer one was found at http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD. So, I guess I'll have to writ my own http fetch code in a post-fetch block. Can you point me to doc/examples?


On Dec 13, 2011, at 9:09 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> 



Mark






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