Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:10:39 +0100 From: Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> Cc: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd@codelabs.ru>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about creating a port for saga gis Message-ID: <4AFFC58F.8020603@gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <200911150835.nAF8ZJxi011229@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200911150835.nAF8ZJxi011229@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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On 15.11.2009 09:35 (UTC+1), Scott Bennett wrote: > 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. 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
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