ASSP out of date

[Ryan Schmidt]

We'll skip the push-ups this time.

On Nov 6, 2008, at 00:17, Scott Haneda wrote:

> 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.