New port: profanity

[subpop (Link Dupont)]

profanity is an ncurses, console-based XMPP client. It uses libstrophe as an XMPP library.

[kencu (Ken)]

Hi Link. Thought I would work on this for you, to get 'er done. I updated the Portfile to the newest version, but ran into some kind of issue with the Python configuration:

checking for Python include path... -I/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7
checking for Python library path... -L/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib -lpython2.7
checking for Python site-packages path... /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages
checking python extra libraries... -ldl  -framework CoreFoundation
checking python extra linking flags... -u _PyMac_Error Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python
checking consistency of all components of python development environment... no
configure: error: in `/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_Shared_macports_porttests_net_profanity/profanity/work/profanity-0.5.1':
configure: error: 
  Could not link test program to Python. Maybe the main Python library has been
  installed in some non-standard library path. If so, pass it to configure,
  via the LDFLAGS environment variable.
  Example: ./configure LDFLAGS="-L/usr/non-standard-path/python/lib"
  ============================================================================
   ERROR!
   You probably have to install the development version of the Python package
   for your distribution.  The exact name of this package varies among them.
  ============================================================================

See `config.log' for more details
Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_Shared_macports_porttests_net_profanity/profanity/work/profanity-0.5.1" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local 
Exit code: 1
Error: Failed to configure profanity, consult /opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_Shared_macports_porttests_net_profanity/profanity/work/profanity-0.5.1/config.log

I'll upload the Portfile I used, and the config.log.

I'm not a huge Python expert; others on MacPorts are. Perhaps you or one of them might know why this error is happening.

[kencu (Ken)]

Portfile.20171010.version.0.5.1

[kencu (Ken)]

config.log showing errors with 0.5.1

[kencu (Ken)]

passing this in

configure.args-append  \
                   PYTHON_FRAMEWORK=${prefix}/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework

helps it find my local python (2.7). But the python installation will have to be fully specified in this port, probably to one of the 3.x versions at this point. It might be possible to do that via configure arguments, but I could not see a way to set python-config when I looked for one. It's possible it might need to be edited directly in the makefiles with a patch.

Even when I did spec the PYTHON_FRAMEWORK, I next encountered this error:

checking for /usr/local/opt/readline/lib... no
configure: error: libreadline is required for profanity

which seems a very strange place to be looking for libreadline, which is installed here:

/opt/local/lib/libreadline.7.0.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libreadline.7.dylib
/opt/local/lib/libreadline.a
/opt/local/lib/libreadline.dylib

There seems to be no configure variable to specify that location to the build script, so that might need a patch as well.

Hmmm. Bogged down. No doubt fixable in the end, but it will unfortunately take some more work. I will leave this here for a while to see if it's of interest to anyone to fix this.

[kencu (Ken)]

ah, I see. /usr/local/opt/readline/lib/ is where homebrew would put readline. So that must be what was expected here.

[kencu (Ken)]

In b40c2889322d3d596ebc3781e79409c28e0d820e/macports-ports:

profanity: new port

console-based XMPP client
closes: #48916

[kencu (Ken)]

OK, Link. I sorted it out in the end. Both your submissions are now in MacPorts. I can confirm building on 10.6, 10.10, 10.11, 10.12, and 10.13. I ran it on 10.6 and 10.13 without any trouble. We'll see if the buildbots turn out any issues with the 10.7 - 10.9 group.

Haven't heard from you, and I guess that may be no surprise two years after you submitted this port -- but we're expanding manpower, and I got to it as soon as I could, being a newcomer. Hope you didn't find that too frustrating. Thanks for your submission. -- Ken