A patch for installing php5 -macosx +apache

[markd at macports.org]

"js " <ebgssth at gmail.com> on Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 7:50 AM -0800 wrote:
>> Specifying "-macosx" is ... weird. Variants like macosx and darwin_8
>> are auto-selected by MacPorts; you should not be selecting (or, as in
>> your case, unselecting) them by hand.
>
>Good to know.
>I don't know you're the right person to ask this,
>but how about adding that info to MacPorts FAQ?
>I think many people's been wondering what macosx is.

I don't understand it either.  I thought the platform keyword was used to
do that stuff, not variants.  And doesn't osx = darwin?  Wouldn't it be
better to use the 'platform dawin' statement?  When would osx <> darwin?

Mark