Question about updating guile to 1.8

[Amatus]

--- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 18:07 -0800, Amatus wrote:
> > --- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 14:24 -0800, Amatus wrote:
> > > > Hi guys,
> > > > I'm working on updating lang/guile to 1.8.
> > > 
> > > Excellent.
> > > 
> > > >  I've basically got that
> > > > working but there are several other ports that refer to
> > > > ${LOCALBASE}/share/guile/1.6 that will need to be fixed. These
> are:
> > > > security/lsh
> > > > lang/slib-guile
> > > > finance/gnucash
> > > > I've just started doing port development so I'd like to ask
> what is
> > > the
> > > > correct way to fix these ports. What do you guys think of the
> > > attached
> > > > patch for lang/slib-guile?
> > > 
> > > This patch is okay.  But note that GUILE_VERSION is not expanded
> > > until
> > > it is used in sh.  That is, GUILE_VERSION does NOT equal "1.8". 
> You
> > > will not be able to make it equal "1.8" until it is interpreted
> by
> > > sh.
> > > The way you're using it here is fine, though.
> > > 
> > > As for the command itself, it should probably be:
> > > 
> > > `${LOCALBASE}/bin/guile-config info guileversion | ${CUT} -f 1-2
> -d
> > > .`
> > > 
> > > Are you in a position to be run-time testing these ports with the
> new
> > > guile?  Once you're done with your work, do you want to be the
> guile
> > > maintainer?
> > > 
> > > Joe
> > 
> > I realize it's not expanded immediately. I know in GNU make there
> is
> > the $(shell) syntax for doing that but I didn't find a way to do
> that
> > in BSD make. Do you know the Right Way?
> 
> The way you're doing it is probably best.  The way you submitted in
> the
> PR, while it may look correct, will most likely break INDEX when
> guile
> is not installed.   Try it.  Uninstall guile, then cd to lang/slib,
> and
> run "make describe".  Use of != is discouraged for commands which are
> not in the base system.
> 
> Joe

I uninstalled guile and make describe worked fine with some noise on
stderr. I'm running into more problems with gnucash and lsh using
RUN_DEPENDS. I need to .include <bsd.port.pre.mk> before the != but if
I move it up too high in the file (before RUN_DEPENDS) then make
breaks. Would it be ok to just edit the dependency to be
"slib-guile>=3a4:${PORTSDIR}/lang/slib-guile" instead of
"${LOCALBASE}/share/guile/1.6/slibcat:${PORTSDIR}/lang/slib-guile"?
Thanks.


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