apl 1.5 Add new port GNU APL 1.5

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Here is the new port GNU APL.

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Patch to be able to compile

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• Category: lang
• Tested on OSX 10.10.5, XCode Version 7.0 (7A220)

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Why does it require gcc49? Does no other compiler work?

[txm.fourier@…]

I've tried with 5.3.0 initially, got compilation errors about unknown '-rdynamic' argument. Switching to 4.9 solved the problem.

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Patch to use old svn to get revision info

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I've updated Portfile to use SVN version instead of frozen 1.5, since the Author recommended to use this version.

The attached file patch-src-native-file_io.cc.diff should be removed, I've added another patch for the SVN version.

The SVN version doesn't need the gcc49 to compile.

I also volunteer to support this port.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

We would prefer not to fetch from revision control systems. We would rather use a tarball, and if a few patchfiles are needed to make it work right, cherry-picked from future commits, we can add those. If there are so many patches needed that patchfiles become impractical, it would be appropriate for the developer to release a new version of the software incorporating all the needed changes.

Why patch buildtag to use /usr/bin/svn and /usr/bin/svnversion instead of svn and svnversion? What problem do you encounter when using the MacPorts versions of svn and svnversion?

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I know about SVN. The problem is what the author is not making releases ofter (in fact really really seldom, since it is one person project, and the previous version was in March 2015). He recommended to use latest from SVN as often as possible, that is why I decided to create this port from SVN. In any case it is a fixed revision, and I'm planning to upgrade revision not really often as well(not like once a week, rather once a month-two).

The patch was because svn checkout happened using /usr/bin/svn(Macports constructed command line using this version of svn, regardless of what I have installed svn from Macports), which is quite old, but svnversion in the GNU APL called without specifying the path(and in my system /opt/local/bin goes before /usr/bin), and therefore newer than the client checkout.

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Any movement on this? Is it absolute neccesity to use tarballs (which doesn't exist) to be accepted to macports?

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Portfile

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Ping guys. You have a package and a maintainer here, what is the problem?

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

It looks like 1.6 was released 5 months ago - can you update the Portfile to use that and I'll commit it for you.