Writing a portfile

[Michael_google gmail_Gersten]

Learn to write a portfile

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht <brad at pixilla.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 6, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote:
>
>>>>> Unfortunately nobody has made a port for it yet, so for now you have to
>>>>> get it from the repository:
>>>>
>>>> Alright, where is the "Howto: for dummies" document on how to write a
>>>> port for someone that has never written a port before?
>>>
>>> It's probably easiest to find a simple port whose source files are
>>> downloaded in a similar manner and modify it to suit your needs.
>>>
>>> What port are you wanting to create?
>>
>> Port-rdeps
>
> So you are creating a port for a tcl script, right?
>
> Maybe take a look at the port_cutleaves port which looks to be  a shell
> script.
> Maybe package up your script in a similar manner.
>
> Well, I was interested so I gave it a go.
>
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/24389
>
> // Brad
>



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