[112580] trunk/dports/gis/gdal-grass/Portfile

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sun Oct 27 06:11:23 PDT 2013


On Oct 27, 2013, at 08:08, Vincent Habchi <vince at macports.org> wrote:

> Ryan,
> 
>> It’s nice to commit whitespace changes separately from functional ones so that the functional changes can be more easily spotted. This appears to be the functional change in this commit:
> 
> I agree and apologize. The functional change was so minor I thought unnecessary and cumbersome to do two separate commits.
> 
>> Does this change where gdal-grass installs its files, or where it expects to find grass files at runtime? If so, the revision should be increased.
>> I wanted to find out for myself so I checked for binary packages, but there aren’t any; the port doesn’t indicate its license so MacPorts assumes it’s not distributable.
>> Then I tried installing the port, but its dependency grass fails to build on Mavericks.
> 
> Rats. I don’t have grass installed on this machine, so I guess it’s going to be a pain to sort that out. Stay tuned.

If you can determine gdal-grass’s license and set it, and that makes the port distributable, then you can manually download a pre-compiled package from http://packages.macports.org and look at its contents.



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