PortGroups / New to Port File Development, Sorry!

[Ben Smith]

Thanks Bradley, I've now updated both the heapCL and torchCL tickets
in trac with new portfiles that address these issues and use built in
linking instead of my own.

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Ben Smith
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht
<pixilla at macports.org> wrote:
> Apparently you have python.default_version too early in your Portfile, before "name" is declared.
>
> Put the python vars later in your Portfile, after checksums for example:
>
> checksums           rmd160  5a07d156e48d2345aad899370a45eb4db91189ae \
>                     sha256  c73a2a705acb17c9d8231cf54d280adae66c4432dcd3c461d8754a61efb1c549
>
> python.version      27
> python.link_binaries_suffix
>
>
>
> On Aug 28, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Ben Smith wrote:
>
>> When I try to set the default value I get:
>>
>> Failed to parse file office/torchCL/Portfile: can't set
>> "python.default_version": can't read "name": no such variable
>>
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>> Ben Smith
>> Founder / CSA
>> WBP SYSTEMS
>> http://www.wbpsystems.com
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
>>> 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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