New Port Request: Primesieve from https://github.com/kimwalisch/primesieve

[Kenneth Wolcott]

I think that the Perl Primesieve module is installed now (have not yet
tested it), but Raku fails to find the Primesieve Library.  Guess I
should try to get help from "Raku Land".  The module brief
installation documentation assumes one is using Ubuntu (not MacOS).

Thanks,
Ken W.

On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 5:03 PM Kenneth Wolcott
<kennethwolcott at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well, it looks like it is the Primesieve library after all :-)
>
> Thanks!
>
> But I think I will not be able to install the Primesieve bindings
> outside of MacPorts because I don't think it will know to look in
> /opt/local and I don't know how to tell it to look there.
>
> I'll look again at the bindings...
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Wolcott
>
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 4:56 PM Kenneth Wolcott
> <kennethwolcott at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Dave;
> >
> >   That's the binary, not the library :-)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ken
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 4:44 PM Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via
> > macports-users <macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Ken, it looks like MacPorts already has a primesieve port, created by The Other Ken several months ago.  port install primesieve.  Does that work for you?  Does it install as expected into /opt/local?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 4:54 PM Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi All;
> > >>
> > >>   I can build the Primesieve library by hand, but by default the
> > >> library is installed in /usr/local.
> > >>
> > >>   The MacPorts Manual/FAQ strongly discourages placing include files
> > >> and libraries in /usr/local.
> > >>
> > >>   I really would like to use Primesieve (Library) from MacPorts if
> > >> somebody would be so kind as to create that port.
> > >>
> > >>   My knowledge of cmake is insufficient to try to modify the
> > >> Primesieve source myself; and even if I did, where would I write the
> > >> include and and library files? It would be best to place them in
> > >> /opt/local, but then that really should be done by a Macports
> > >> installation.
> > >>
> > >>   It would also be very nice if the Perl and Raku (others as well
> > >> would be icing on the cake!) bindings of the Primesieve Library were
> > >> also created as MacPorts ports.
> > >>
> > >>   Meanwhile I am trying to learn how to create an Ada binding for the
> > >> Primesieve Library.
> > >>
> > >> https://github.com/kimwalisch/primesieve
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Ken Wolcott
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 7:20 AM Ken Cunningham
> > >> <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > Hi Ken,
> > >> >
> > >> > I’ve updated the port here, just waiting for the CI system to validate on arm, etc before pushing:
> > >> >
> > >> > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/24159
> > >> >
> > >> > I don’t know how to use or test those bindings you are asking for, and I didn’t see anything in the cmake file about it. I didn’t look too hard, admittedly.
> > >> >
> > >> > If you help me by showing me what you are trying to do and how it fails, I / we can probably get it going for you. If I can’t, I’m sure someone can.
> > >> >
> > >> > Ken