Port Request: Perl DateTime::Format::ICal

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Hi, I'd really appreciate a port of the Perl module "DateTime::Format::ICal".

I tried following the instructions on the Wiki page "howto/cpan2port", but to no avail. I've generated a portfile, but it fails with this error:

$ port build
Warning: MacPorts running without privileges. You may be unable to complete certain actions (e.g. install).
--->  Computing dependencies for p5-datetime-format-ical
Error: Dependency 'p5.12-datetime-format-ical' not found.
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

In case it helps, I've attached the portfile that I generated with cpan2port.

I'd appreciate a port, of course, but also any pointers on what I did wrong when trying to port it myself. I'd happily contribute any (successful) port if I run into another Perl module in the future.

[mac@…]

portfile generated with "./cpan2port -t DateTime::Format::ICal"

[mac@…]

Grr, sorry about the formatting. I should have read the guide a bit better.

I can do one better; I tried to track down unsatisfied dependencies that weren't ported yet. I'll attach a .zip file of all of the resulting portfiles. Note that I still can't seem to build any of them; each time, it fails because it can't find a "p5.12-*" dependency...

For pedantry's sake, this was the error message I originally got:

$ port build
Warning: MacPorts running without privileges. You may be unable to complete certain actions (e.g. install).
--->  Computing dependencies for p5-datetime-format-ical
Error: Dependency 'p5.12-datetime-format-ical' not found.
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

[mac@…]

.zip file containing portfiles for Datetime::Event::ICal and its dependencies that haven't yet been ported

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Try:

sudo port build subport=p5.12-datetime-format-ical

[mac@…]

Thanks for that tip! I was able to build and install the Perl module and the modules which it depends on, but I had to modify the portfiles to change the "depends_lib-append" list to refer to "p5.12-*" ports instead of more-generic "p5-*" ports for all the modules that I built.

Is there a better way to have done this, so that the modules are "p5-" prefixed? I'm not sure what the preferred way of doing things is.

Also, should I submit all the portfiles to this one ticket, or open a new ticket for each one? There are five dependencies total, all needed to build DateTime::Format::ICal. Hoping that my work can lead to these being added to the default ports tree...

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

I guess cpan2port doesn't know about subports yet. You need to do the dependencies like this:

if {${perl5.major} != ""} {
    depends_lib-append  port:p${perl5.major}-datetime \
	                    port:p${perl5.major}-datetime-event-ical \
                            ...
}