Building MacPorts on a Linux system

[Emmanuel Hainry]

I used to run macports on my debian box. It worked quite well but I
stopped because I did not find any way to use the system Xorg.

The packages I installed were mostly (debian packages, so probably
different on suse): libcurl3-gnutls, gobjc-4.4, gnustep-core-devel and
probably a few other that I don't remember. Then, you can install ports
that are not mac specific (all that is aqua is obviously out of
question) and will bump into problems for some portfiles that are
specifically designed for macs for lack of testers on other systems.

If you want to try another package manager that works on linux, osx and
bsd, you can have a look at pkgsrc (the ports collection from netbsd)
which works on the command-line (relies on bsdmake), seamlessly builds
packages and their dependencies from source, lets you locate your
packages and dependencies in an entirely self-contained way (everything
goes in /usr/pkg by default), works as well as macports.

Good luck,
Emmanuel

Citando Sumner Trammell :
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been extremely satisfied with MacPorts on my Mac. I love that
> MacPorts is self-contained and the ports and their dependencies don't
> touch the rest of the system. I compiled it with:
> 
> --prefix=~/macports --with-tclpackage=~/macports/Library/Tcl
> 
> and everything is happily isolated in my home directory.
> 
> 
> 
> MacPorts works so well that I would like to build it on a Linux system
> and use it there. I'm (unfortunately) using SuSE (SLES) Linux. Running
> configure without options died here:
> 
> checking objc/objc.h usability... no
> checking objc/objc.h presence... no
> checking for objc/objc.h... no
> configure: error: Can't locate Objective C runtime headers
> 
> 
> I don't know a lot about Linux, but I expected this.  Can you
> recommend some configure options that might allow MacPorts to build on
> a vanilla SuSE/SLES Linux system? (Is it possible for me to turn off
> the Mac-specific things?)
> 
> If there is no way to build MacPorts on a Linux system, is there a
> next-best package management system that:
> 
> 1. Works on the command-line.
> 
> 2. Seamlessly builds packages and their dependencies from source.
> 
> 3. Lets me locate my packages and dependencies in an entirely
> self-contained way, not touching the rest of the system.
> 
> 4. Works as well as MacPorts.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> -JS
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