ASSP out of date

[Scott Haneda]

Cool, thanks... Just skimmed the relevant parts of the guide.  Will  
read in detail as I go along.  Strange, a little excited to get  
started....

Thanks for everyone being so helpful, even on IRC, macports just made  
my top 10 list of nice communities :) There are some rough ones out  
there for sure.

Now watch someone jump my *** about top posting :)

On Nov 5, 2008, at 10:02 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> Read the Guide. MacPorts executes many phases, such as fetch,  
> extract, patch, configure, build, destroot, install, activate, and  
> has default actions that it performs in each of those. These default  
> actions are sufficient for many kinds of software. For example, the  
> configure phase runs, basically, "./configure --prefix=${prefix}" in  
> the worksrcpath, and the build phase runs "make". You can override  
> bits of these phases as needed to adapt to the particular software  
> you're trying to write a portfile for.

--
Scott