Gate & Geant4: how to pass the variables from one port to the other

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2013, at 5:15 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> But I still need a way to specify the path somewhere: be
>> it by hardcoding it in Gate or by providing a function in the
>> portgroup.
>
>
> You could subport geant4 and gate to share variables.

Thank you.

Despite being a bit obscure (different name, developers, version,
licence, server, distfiles, patches, ...) it's actually an interesting
way to solve the problem.

I'm still processing this approach and trying to compare different options.

I'll post another (few) question(s) soon.

Mojca

> name geant4
> version 0
>
> set geant495_patchlevel 2
> set geant496_patchlevel 3
>
> subport geant4.9.5 {
> # geant4.9.5 Portfile options
>     version 4.9.5.${geant495_patchlevel}
> }
> subport geant4.9.6 {
> # geant4.9.6 Portfile options
>     version 4.9.6.${geant496_patchlevel}
> }
> subport gate {
> # gate Portfile options
>     variant geant495 conflicts geant496 description {Use Geant4 9.5} {
>         depends_lib port:geant4.9.5
>         configure.args-append \
>             -DGeant4_DIR=${prefix}/lib/Geant4/Geant4.9.5/Geant4-9.5.${geant495_patchlevel}
>     }
>     variant geant496 conflicts geant495 description {Use Geant4 9.6} {
>         depends_lib port:geant4.9.6
>         configure.args-append \
>             -DGeant4_DIR=${prefix}/lib/Geant4/Geant4.9.6/Geant4-9.6.${geant496_patchlevel}
>     }
> }
> if {${name} eq ${subport}} {
> # stub port
> }