auto-multiple-choice

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Hi Please consider including auto-multiple-choice in macports. This software at present time is included in the package system of debian, ubuntu and mageia.

I also submitted p5-net-cups (#29383) in order to satisfy a dependency on cups through net::cups module. Thank you for your interest.

Best regards

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Instead of a variant "latexfree", I would suggest a variant "latex" which is on by default and which the user can turn off if desired. See PortfileRecipes.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Also, you've put this in the education category, but we don't actually have one, not as a primary category, anyway. Is there another category this would fit into? Here is the list of primary categories:

aqua		emulators	irc		palm		tex
archivers	erlang		java		perl		textproc
audio		finance		kde		php		www
benchmarks	fuse		lang		print		x11
cad		games		mail		python		xfce
comms		genealogy	math		ruby		zope
cross		gis		multimedia	science
databases	gnome		net		security
devel		gnustep		news		shells
editors		graphics	office		sysutils

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The default variant latex has now substituted for the latexfree variant.

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Replying to ryandesign@…:

Also, you've put this in the education category, but we don't actually have one, not as a primary category, anyway. Is there another category this would fit into? Here is the list of primary categories:

The categories are now x11 (primary), tex and education.

Thanks

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The build succeeds.... but the log is full of errors like these:

usage: mktemp [-d] [-q] [-t prefix] [-u] template ...
       mktemp [-d] [-q] [-u] -t prefix 
date: illegal option -- R
usage: date [-jnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... 
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]

This Makefile appears to be assuming the GNU versions of date and mktemp; the Mac OS X BSD versions do not behave the same way. For BSD mktemp, the template is not optional, and for BSD date, there is no -R option.

I'm not sure if these parts of the Makefile are actually relevant to the build being done in MacPorts, but these issues should probably be reported to the developers.

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Replying to ryandesign@…:

The build succeeds.... but the log is full of errors like these:

usage: mktemp [-d] [-q] [-t prefix] [-u] template ...
       mktemp [-d] [-q] [-u] -t prefix 
date: illegal option -- R
usage: date [-jnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... 
            [-f fmt date | [[[mm]dd]HH]MM[[cc]yy][.ss]] [+format]

This Makefile appears to be assuming the GNU versions of date and mktemp; the Mac OS X BSD versions do not behave the same way. For BSD mktemp, the template is not optional, and for BSD date, there is no -R option.

I'm not sure if these parts of the Makefile are actually relevant to the build being done in MacPorts, but these issues should probably be reported to the developers.

Oups...This should be fixed with the new version of auto-multiple-choice, now pointed in the Portfile.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Thanks.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I added the port in r79105 with some changes (including ensuring we're UsingTheRightCompiler and build arch, and simplifying how mktexlsr is run).