PortGroups / New to Port File Development, Sorry!

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Aug 28 11:59:24 PDT 2012


On 2012-8-29 04:49 , Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2012-8-29 03:05 , Ben Smith wrote:
>> But without doing the link myself, it doesn't appear to create the
>> link.  I'm assuming that this is a common issue because the manual
>> method I want to use is exactly what GoogleCL is using.
> 
> python.link_binaries_suffix had only existed for a couple of months when
> googlecl was created, so probably the author was simply unaware of the
> feature. The linking code provided by the portgroup works fine for many,
> many ports.

You do actually need to set python.default_version. But with that change
your portfile creates the link fine here.

- Josh


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