Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:35:19 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de> Subject: Re: Question about creating a port for saga gis Message-ID: <200911150835.nAF8ZJxi011229@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:41:58 +0100 Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de>
wrote:
>I am working on a new port math/saga. It is my first port.
>
>Now that I am able to directly download the sources of SAGA GIS from
>sourceforge (thanks to Eygene Ryabinkin and Sergey V. Dyatko), there is
>another problem with porting where I need some help.
>
>The original configure script of SAGA GIS expects 'wx-config', but in
>newer FreeBSD systems there only is e.g. wxgtk2-2.8-config.
>
>The porters handbook shows how to configure the ports Makefile to let
>the port know what wxWidget version to use. I patched the original
>configure script but obviously that's not enough. The attached files are
>saved under math/saga and show what I have tried.
>
Why are you putting saga into math? It should be in databases, like
grass and postgis are, or conceivably in science. I don't see any reason
for it to be in math.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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