Valid platform variant string in libtheora port file?

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu Jul 31 03:07:31 PDT 2008


Tabitha McNerney wrote:
> According to the MacPorts documentation, it does not appear that 
> combining darwin_9 and darwin_i386 into one string is legal:
> 
> http://guide.macports.org/#reference.variants.platform
> 
>     Platform variants are either defined by default in MacPorts base, or
>     defined by a port author to customize a port's installation
>     according to OS (operating system) or hardware platform.
> 
>     platform [os_platform] [hw_platform] [version] [arch]

Hm, the documentation seems to be wrong, this should be like this as it 
is also documented in port1.0/portutil.tcl:

platform <os> [<version>] [<arch>]

'darwin' is <os>,
'9' is the <version>,
'i386' is <arch>.

So this is valid, just the documentation is wrong.
Changed in r38790.

Rainer


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