Buiid/install stages documentation?

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 16:14:58 +0200 Rainer Müller
<raimue at macports.org> wrote:
> > Maybe I should ask this a bit differently. Are there other
> > precedents for using a "foreign" packaging or build system and
> > tricking it into building stuff for macports that I could study
> > and possibly steal pieces of?  
> 
> Not that I am aware of. Most package managers would also install
> all the dependencies, something we do not want in a port.
> 
> The usual approach is to generate a Portfile from the definition of
> the "foreign" package manager and also create ports for all
> dependencies.
> 
> For example, cpan2port or pypi2port in macports-contrib [1,2] do
> that for Perl or Python, respectively. They are far from perfect,
> but are a great help to get an initial Portfile.

Maybe this is the right approach. Is this generally how ruby, python,
and perl ports handle this?

Perry
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