Debugging a port; commands to rebuild

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Thu Dec 17 09:33:46 PST 2015


Hi,

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 03:27:27AM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> > I think you can just "touch /path/to/Portfile".
> 
> Brandon, I'm assuming Justin has made changes to the source files in
> the work directory that he now wants to try to build. If he touches
> the portfile, MacPorts will clean the work directory and try again,
> wiping out the changes he wants to test.

Touching the Portfile may not be enough since we started using checksums
in the statefile. A whitespace-only modification of the Portfile in
combination with port -o will work, but it's a tedious process.

-- 
Clemens


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