`port install' from github tarball fails

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 25, 2018, at 19:50, Ken Cunningham wrote:

> On 2018-09-25, at 5:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 25, 2018, at 10:35, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>> 
>>> There is one hiccup. Updating macports with "sudo port selfupdate" does not respect the curlprefix. 
>> 
>> I'm not sure what you mean. selfupdate doesn't use curl; it uses rsync.
> 
> There is a ticket about this <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55039>
> 
> If you install MacPorts with certain build options, eg a non-standard curlprefix, for example
> 
> ./configure --with-curlprefix=/opt/bootstrap
> make && sudo make install
> 
> 
> and then later selfupdate, and a new MacPorts is noted and installed:
> 
> sudo port -v selfupdate
> 
> it will install the new copy of MacPorts ignoring the previous curlprefix (and some other build options are ignored as well).
> 
> So -- "sudo port -v selfupdate" appears to only really work with all standard installation options.

Oh right, that. Yes, selfupdate doesn't preserve custom configure options.