Executing scripts during configure

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 5, 2008, at 20:40, Michael Franz wrote:

> Add a pre-configure phase which finds those files and generates the
> string/path that you want to pass to configure, put it in a portfile-
> local variable and then add it to your configure args by using that
> variable.
>
> Any hints on how to do this?  I have not found many examples.  The  
> one that I did find uses perl.
>
> These don't cause a problem, but doesn't work.  libgcj is not  
> defined when configure executes.
>
> set libgcj [ open find ${prefix}/share/java -name "libgcj-4\.2*.jar"]
> set libgcj system find ${prefix}/share/java -name "libgcj-4\.2*.jar"

It would probably be:

set libgcj [exec find ${prefix}/share/java -name "libgcj-4\.2*.jar"]

(unless you use fs-traverse like Daniel said)