New port cilk-5.4.6

[ddugovic@…]

$ sudo port install
Portfile changed since last build; discarding previous state.
--->  Fetching cilk
--->  Attempting to fetch cilk-5.4.6.tar.gz from http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/cilk/cilk-5.4.6.tar.gz
--->  Attempting to fetch cilk-5.4.6.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/cilk
--->  Attempting to fetch cilk-5.4.6.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
--->  Attempting to fetch cilk-5.4.6.tar.gz from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/cilk
Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[blb@…]

If you remove the archive name from the master_sites entry:

master_sites http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/cilk/

fetch should work for you then.

Some other notes: do you want to be the maintainer? Remove the ${destroot} from configure.args, or it'll always expect to find stuff there, which is incorrect (the ${destroot} in destroot.destdir should be doing the right thing).

[ddugovic@…]

Updated work-in-progress Portfile for GPL cilk-5.4.6 compiler

[ddugovic@…]

Thanks for the advice. Sure, I'd be glad to maintain this project, although I don't expect to be making enhancements to the compiler anytime soon.

I've got a couple remaining questions:

• I looked at the portfiles categories; what would be the best place to put this project?
  
• I know the source code is GPL-licensed, so does that mean I can mirror it at sourceforge (or elsewhere)?
  
• There's two compilers; cilkc generates executables and cilk2c generates C code. Is there a MacPorts convention for indicating this?

I've updated the Portfile attached to this ticket; I'm not sure if I need the destroot.destdir at all, but other than that, the Id, and the categories, it seems reasonably complete.

[ryandesign@…]

Some suggestions:

• remove "revision 1"; the first revision of a given version should be 0
• category should be "lang"
• remove "--prefix=${prefix}" from configure.args; MacPorts already puts that in configure.pre_args for you
• add "use_parallel_build yes" to speed up the build on multi-processor systems
• remove "destroot.destdir" declaration; it seems to be irrelevant here
• remove "--mandir" argument from configure.args; cilk does not install any manpages
• since homepage and master_sites are the same, use the one as a variable in the other

See Portfile2​ which includes these changes.

The GPL says you may redistribute it, so you can mirror it anywhere you like. MacPorts will automatically mirror it at ​http://distfiles.macports.org/cilk/ as soon as the port is committed.

This port you're submitting seems to only provide cilkc. Is cilk2c a different package? If so, it should get a separate port. If, on the other hand, cilk2c can be generated from this same source code via some configure options or similar, then a single port could install both.

[ddugovic@…]

Thanks Ryan for the changes & explanation about mirroring.

This package includes both compilers, cilkc (cilk compiler) and cilk2c (cilk-to-C compiler). I'll double-check the configure options (& similar), but they might both be installed by default.

[ryandesign@…]

I installed the port from the portfile, and only ended up with a cilkc binary. There was no cilk2c binary installed.

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