newbie help wanted with installing/using netpbm through macports

[Matt]

I agree its not the most elegant solution, but its the only way I  
could get things to work.  I'm not sure which piece of the puzzle  
requires ppmtomd to be in /usr/local/bin but something does.  I  
suppose I could put an alias to ppmtomd in /usr/local/bin.

I have no idea how to go about making a port file, but it would save a  
couple steps.

The step that I am most unhappy with in my instructions is that you  
can't select the correct front end driver from usbtb's install  
interface.  If someone accidentally tried to print a test page with  
the wrong driver it could damage their printer.  Not sure what I can  
do about that short of modifying the source for usbtb and I'm not  
qualified to do that.  The guy that wrote it never got back to me when  
I emailed him a question about it.

One other question for you.  Does MacPorts require the developer tools  
to be installed?  It compiles stuff locally so I assume it does... I  
didn't think to put that in my list of instructions.

On Jan 19, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> I'm glad you got it working! But your instructions have people  
> manually copying ppmtomd from ${prefix}/bin to /usr/local/bin.  
> That's non-excellent. It would be better to figure out how to make  
> it work from ${prefix}/bin. You also have people manually  
> downloading and installing ghostscript, foomatic-rip and usbtb. We  
> already have a port for ghostscript in MacPorts. Wouldn't it make  
> things easier to create ports for foomatic-rip and usbtb as well?
>