Trouble with Mailman install

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 10, 2014, at 11:11 PM, Bill Christensen <billc_lists at greenbuilder.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Jul 10, 2014, at 2:20 PM, Bill Christensen <billc_lists at greenbuilder.com> wrote:
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> > I changed the setting in MacPorts' file from --with-mail-gid=_mailman to --with-mail-gid=staff and attempted to reinstall, but I'm getting an error that it's "Unable to open port - invalid command name '--with-mail-gid=staff'".
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> You have a syntax error in your portfile. Perhaps you forgot to add the backslash at the end of the preceding line. If you show us the modifications you made, we made be able to be more precise.
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> Ok, got it.  I had put a comment line directly above --with-mail-gid=staff to remind myself what I had done.  I had to pull that out of the "configure.args" block.  It also appears to work better if I abstract it a bit by using;
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>        set mmgroup2            staff 
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> then after the note to myself so I can revert if needed, change the --with-mail-gid as below
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>        #BC MOD was --with-mail-gid=${mmgroup} \
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>       configure.args         
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>                         --with-mail-gid=${mmgroup2} \

You can't do it that way because in the Tcl language, comments are extended to the next line by backslashes.

You probably want to just put, in a section by itself:


       #BC MOD was --with-mail-gid=${mmgroup}
       set mmgroup2            staff 
       configure.args-append --with-mail-gid=${mmgroup2}