Macports Reduce build

[Mark Brethen]

Here’s the portfile. 

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Mark Brethen
mark.brethen at gmail.com



> On Sep 23, 2018, at 6:34 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Sep 23, 2018, at 18:25, Mark Brethen wrote:
>> On Sep 23, 2018, at 5:42 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> 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).
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> Ok, so it's not a real macOS app then, it's just some wrapper script. It's hard for me to make any statements about how it does or should function without seeing it.
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>> In Terminal 'reduce -w’ indicates that the system should run reduce in the command line interface.
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>> Actually ‘open reduce.app’ will pass along the environment $PATH
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> Oh, good to know.
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>> but double-clicking or selecting it from the Applications Menu on the dock does not.
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>>> What do you mean by "under X11"?
>>> 
>>> 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);' 
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>>> 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.
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>>>> I might add that the application bundles reside in /opt/local/libexec/reduce and are symlinked to /Applications/MacPorts/reduce. 
>>> ...
>>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 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:
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>> 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
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> This "ls" output shows the apps are directories. But "port contents" showed they're files. I don't understand this contradiction; it should not be possible.
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