From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 15 09:10:52 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51EC01065679 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:10:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rhurlin@gwdg.de) Received: from amailer.gwdg.de (amailer.gwdg.de [134.76.10.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112088FC17 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:10:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from p578b68b8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([87.139.104.184] helo=krabat.raven.hur) by mailer.gwdg.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N9b87-0006MF-4P; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:10:43 +0100 Message-ID: <4AFFC58F.8020603@gwdg.de> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:10:39 +0100 From: Rainer Hurling User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090824) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Bennett References: <200911150835.nAF8ZJxi011229@mp.cs.niu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200911150835.nAF8ZJxi011229@mp.cs.niu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated: Id:rhurlin X-Spam-Level: - X-Virus-Scanned: (clean) by exiscan+sophie Cc: Eygene Ryabinkin , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about creating a port for saga gis X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:10:52 -0000 On 15.11.2009 09:35 (UTC+1), Scott Bennett wrote: > On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:41:58 +0100 Rainer Hurling > 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. For me SAGA is clearly a mathematical application. In the porters handbook you can read at chapter 5.3.2 for 'science' category: "Scientific ports that do not fit into other categories such as astro, biology and math." So I chose 'math'. Rainer Hurling