New port: math/polymake -- some questions and help needed
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 19:41:02 UTC
Hi ports@ I've been working on a port of polymake (polymake.org). Most of the work is done, but there are some questions. Please advise: - How to deal with machine/installation dependent path names? polymake installs a helper library into ${PREFIX}/libexec/polymake/perlx/%%PERL_VERSION%%/amd64-freebsd-thread-multi/auto/Polymake/Ext/Ext.so amd64-freebsd-thread-multi is the output of perl -E 'use Config; print "$Config::Config{archname}\n";' How do I correctly handle this entry in pkg-plist? - From reading the Porters Handbook, I get the impression that setting DESTDIR is frowned upon. However, if I don't set DESTDIR=${STAGEDIR} in the do-install target, "make stage" dumps everything to ${PREFIX}. Any comments on this? - polymake installs a shared library libpolymake.so. I set USE_LDCONFIG, but "portlint -A" complains that no libraries are installed. Why? If I do install the port in its current form, everything looks fine: $ pkg info polymake ... Shared Libs provided: libpolymake-apps-rt.so.4.4 libpolymake.so.4.4 ... $ Should I worry about this? You can find the current state of affairs at philippost.de/polymake.tar.xz I appreciate any hints and comments you may have. It's my first port and I hope I didn't miss anything important. ;-) Thanks in advance! Philipp