Octave

[mark brethen]

I looked at portfiles of various octave packages already created (e.g. octave-plot, octave-statistics, etc.) and am puzzled why there isn't a download URL listed. How does port know where to find them? Do I need to include one for an octave-symbolic portfile I'm creating?

-Mark



On Jul 3, 2011, at 9:12 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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>> I did find it odd that ginac-devel is not  available at the GiNaC website. However Octave-Forge lists ginac-devel as a build dependency for the symbolic package. Should this make a difference?
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> Then those instructions for octave-forge must be written for one of those other package managers that have this foo / foo-devel split. MacPorts does not have this split, so that directive is not applicable in MacPorts land.
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