port for marx - the Chandra X-ray observatory ray-trace program

[hamogu (Hans Moritz Günther)]

marx is a suite of programs to simulate the Chandra X-ray observatory used by hundreds of astronomers. marx is used to analyze scientific results or to plan observations. In my day job I'm the main developer of marx. It is our policy not to distribute binaries, but building marx on Mac OS X has pitfalls. Thus, I want to help users by getting marx into MacPorts.

I will maintain this port privately in my free time, not as part of my job. Thus, the "maintainer email" is my private address.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

The Milestone field is for use by Macports team members only, please do not set it.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

We generally don't need compiler.whitelist for modern software. Why are you using it here?

[hamogu (Hans Moritz Günther)]

marx behaves differently when compiled with clang as opposed to gcc, see

​https://github.com/Chandra-MARX/marx/issues/17 ​https://github.com/Chandra-MARX/marx/issues/18

That's of course an upstream issue and should be fixed in marx, but until it is we need to compile marx with gcc.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

I see. Is there is a reason that gcc 5 is not whitelisted?

[hamogu (Hans Moritz Günther)]

That's only general caution. marx has not been tested with gcc5 and given the issues with clang I decided to only whitelist those compilers where I know that they work.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

r144642.

I changed the formatting slightly by moving some lines around and changing tabs into spaces.