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The xar-devel Portfile 57378 2009-09-10 08:38:23Z ryandesign macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: xar-devel
Version: 1.6
Revision: 2
Category: archivers sysutils
Platform: darwin freebsd linux
Description: xar is the eXtensible ARchiver
Maintainers: afb openmaintainer
Long Description: ${description}
Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/xar/
Master Sites: http://xar.googlecode.com/files/
Checksums: sha1 bf6506dd200ea18ea1331391da7aaece1188208d

distname xar-${version}
fetch.type svn
svn.url http://xar.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/xar
svn.revision 224
worksrcdir xar

depends_lib port:bzip2 port:liblzma port:libiconv port:libxml2 port:openssl port:zlib

Patch Files: patch-lzmaxar.c

pre-configure {
system "cd ${worksrcpath}; ./autogen.sh"
}

configure.args --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --with-libz=${prefix} --with-libbzip2=${prefix} --with-liblzma=${prefix} --with-libcrypto=${prefix} --with-xml2-config=${prefix}/bin/xml2-config

post-destroot {
reinplace "s/installed=no/installed=yes/" ${destpath}${prefix}/lib/libxar.la
}

livecheck.type regex
livecheck.url http://code.google.com/p/xar/downloads/list?can=2&q=&sort=-uploaded
livecheck.regex files/xar-(\[0-9\.\]+).tar.gz

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/xar-devel
%  sudo port install xar-devel  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching xar-devel
--->  Verifying checksum for xar-devel
--->  Extracting xar-devel
--->  Configuring xar-devel
--->  Building xar-devel with target all

--->  Staging xar-devel into destroot

--->  Installing xar-devel

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using xar-devel with these commands:

%  man xar-devel
%  apropos xar-devel
%  which xar-devel
%  locate xar-devel

 Where to find more information: