Macports Reduce build

[Mark Brethen]

> On Sep 23, 2018, at 5:42 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Sep 23, 2018, at 08:17, Mark Brethen wrote:
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>> I have updated the Macports portfile for Reduce snapshot 2018-08-08. Everything seems to function properly, with one exception: reduce.app. When launched in gui mode under X11 the plot command does not open AquaTerm, as if it does not recognize $PATH. When run from the command line, AquaTerm opens and a graph is displayed.
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> What do you mean by "launched in gui mode"? Do you mean launching reduce.app using launch services, such as by double-clicking it in the Finder or clicking it in the Dock or selecting it in Spotlight or by using the `open` command at the command line?
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double-clicking creates a new window in XQuartz and uses its own windowed interface (fox toolkit). In Terminal 'reduce -w’ indicates that the system should run reduce in the command line interface.

Actually ‘open reduce.app’ will pass along the environment $PATH but double-clicking or selecting it from the Applications Menu on the dock does not.

> What do you mean by "under X11"?
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> What is "the plot command"? Is that some feature of reduce? It is supposed to open AquaTerm, which is in $PATH, but it can't find it?
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Reduce interfaces with gnuplot when you load the gnuplot package, i.e. ‘load_package gnuplot;’ You can then plot functions, e.g. 'plot cos(x);' 

> It is normal that apps launched by launch services are not aware of the $PATH you set in the terminal shell, since launch services has nothing to do with terminals.
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I vaguely recall there was a way in mac os to pass the environment to applications using launch services.


>> I might add that the application bundles reside in /opt/local/libexec/reduce and are symlinked to /Applications/MacPorts/reduce. 
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>> Port reduce contains:
>>  /Applications/MacPorts/reduce/bootstrapreduce.app
>>  /Applications/MacPorts/reduce/csl.app
>>  /Applications/MacPorts/reduce/reduce.app
>>  /opt/local/bin/bootstrapreduce
>>  /opt/local/bin/csl
>>  /opt/local/bin/redcsl
>>  /opt/local/bin/redpsl
>>  /opt/local/bin/rfcsl
>>  /opt/local/bin/rfpsl
>>  /opt/local/libexec/reduce/README
>>  /opt/local/libexec/reduce/csl/bootstrapreduce.app
>>  /opt/local/libexec/reduce/csl/csl.app
>>  /opt/local/libexec/reduce/csl/reduce.app
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> According to this, these ".app"s are files. Real ".app"s are directories. So what are these files?
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This is just the output from ‘port contents reduce’. From the terminal:

cd /Applications/MacPorts/reduce
ls -al
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  5 root  admin  170 Sep 22 13:49 .
drwxr-xr-x  9 root  admin  306 Sep 22 13:49 ..
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin   49 Sep 22 13:49 bootstrapreduce.app -> /opt/local/libexec/reduce/csl/bootstrapreduce.app
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin   37 Sep 22 13:49 csl.app -> /opt/local/libexec/reduce/csl/csl.app
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin   40 Sep 22 13:49 reduce.app -> /opt/local/libexec/reduce/csl/reduce.app

cd /opt/local/libexec/reduce/csl/
ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  5 root  admin  170 Sep 22 13:49 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 root  admin  204 Sep 22 13:49 ..
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  admin  102 Sep 22 13:49 bootstrapreduce.app
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  admin  102 Sep 22 13:49 csl.app
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  admin  102 Sep 22 13:49 reduce.app


 

Mark Brethen
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