gmsh

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 28, 2012, at 13:53, Vincent Habchi wrote:

>>> How exactly do you use require_active_variants (I can’t seem to find any help)? You just append the ports and the procedure pulls in any variant present in the parameters but missing in the Portfile being built?
>> 
>> I haven't used it myself yet. If the portgroup file itself doesn't contain adequate documentation, I would `grep` the Portfiles to find a port using it and try to figure it out.
> 
> The portgroup is crystal clear, but require_active_variants does not match was I am looking for. It just checks if a port has been installed with required variants (or without banned variants) [snip]

Right, so I was thinking you could do something like:

variant qt4 {
    require_active_variants gmsh {qt4} {}
    ...
}
if {![variant_isset qt4]} {
    require_active_variants gmsh {} {qt4}
}