barebones config file

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Nov 22, 2015, at 11:23 PM, Mark Brethen <mark.brethen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Nov 22, 2015, at 10:36 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 22, 2015, at 10:35 PM, Mark Brethen <mark.brethen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 22, 2015, at 10:26 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Ok, so you have overridden the configure phase. Why? 
>>>> 
>>>> configure {
>>>> system -W ${worksrcpath}/src "${configure.cmd}"
>>>> }
>>>> 
>>>> I'd instead use the default configure phase, just changing it to suit your needs. For example, use:
>>>> 
>>>> configure.dir ${worksrcpath}/src
>>>> 
>>>> If this configure script doesn't understand --prefix=${prefix}, use:
>>>> 
>>>> configure.pre_args
>>>> 
>>>> If this configure script doesn't understand --disable-dependency-tracking, use:
>>>> 
>>>> configure.universal_args
>>>> 
>>>> Also, you should use the github portgroup, since this software is hosted at github.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> It fails with the message:
>>> 
>>> :info:configure sh: ./configure: No such file or directory
>>> :info:configure Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_marbre_ports_devel_elkhound/elkhound/work/elkhound-20140803" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local 
>> 
>> That doesn't look like you've changed configure.dir to ${worksrcpath}/src
>> 
>> 
> 
> Yeah, I had that in their but took it out when I overrode configure. Still fails with unknown option:
> 
> :debug:configure Assembled command: 'cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_marbre_ports_devel_elkhound/elkhound/work/elkhound-20140803/src" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local'
> :debug:configure Executing command line:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_marbre_ports_devel_elkhound/elkhound/work/elkhound-20140803/src" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local 
> :info:configure unknown option: prefix
> :info:configure Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_marbre_ports_devel_elkhound/elkhound/work/elkhound-20140803/src" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local 
> :info:configure Exit code: 2
> :error:configure org.macports.configure for port elkhound returned: configure failure: command execution failed

You didn't clear configure.pre_args as I showed above.



On Nov 23, 2015, at 12:46 AM, Mark Brethen <mark.brethen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> I added the github portgroup and github.tarball_from releases. It attempts to fetch from https://github.com/WeiDUorg/elkhound/releases/download/2014-08-03, but its located in https://github.com/WeiDUorg/elkhound/archive/2014-08-03.


elkhound doesn't have any releases. They only have tags. Remove "github.tarball_from releases".