macports and specific build

[Mark Hattam]

At 17:24 -0500 11/10/06, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>On Oct 11, 2006, at 16:24, Mark Hattam wrote:
>
>>>On Oct 11, 2006, at 12:14, Aurélien Lignel wrote:
>>>
>>>>How can I build a soft with specific built command?
>>>>
>>>>  example : port install <soft> <"--disable-nls">
>>>>It's possible?
>>>
>>>MacPorts takes the view that not every 
>>>configure option is useful, and that you 
>>>shouldn't have to look through the output of 
>>>"./configure --help" and read a bunch of text 
>>>to figure out which ones are useful. So part 
>>>of the job of a port author is to determine 
>>>which options are useful, and turn these into 
>>>so-called port variants. So you should say 
>>>"port info foo" where "foo" is the name of the 
>>>software you want to install, and it will list 
>>>the variants that the port author has 
>>>included, and there will hopefully be a 
>>>variant or variants matching your desires. 
>>>Then you install with those variants by saying 
>>>"sudo port install foo +variant1 +variant2" 
>>>where "variant1" and "variant2" are variants 
>>>from the list printed by "port info foo".
>>
>>So how do I install something like php4 with gd 
>>support when gd isn't listed among the variants?
>
>Please keep discussion on the mailing list by using Reply To All.
>
>The php4 port version 4.4.4 revision 2 does 
>include a gd variant. Make sure you have the 
>latest version of the port by first saying "sudo 
>port sync"


Well, I'm obviously missing something, because after doing a

sudo port sync
sudo port uninstall php4
sudo port clean -f php4

then a

sudo port install -f php4 +apache2+darwin_8+macosx+mysql4+gd

it seems to have ignored the +gd bit altogether, 
as it went through all the usual parts of the 
install without apparently doing anything about 
gd. I expected it to download and install gd as 
part of the php4 install, like it does with 
expat, gettext, openssl and the like.

Mark