Howto inspect Portfile variables to debug install

Mojca Miklavec mojca at macports.org
Mon May 30 04:33:25 PDT 2016


On 29 May 2016 at 20:19, Chris Gorman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering how to inspect variables in a port file.  Specifically, I want to apply a patch conditionally if perl is version 5.10.0.
>
> I'm trying something like
>
> if { ${configure.perl} eq "/usr/bin/perl" && [vercmp ${perl5.version} 5.10.0] < 0 } {
>     patchfiles-append patch-man_Makefile.in.diff
> }

What use case do you have in mind?

Mojca


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