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AbiMacSDK is a set of tools to build all at once the dependencies needed by AbiWord to build. If you use that, you likely don't need MacPort.

Contents 1 SVN Checkout 2 Rationale 3 Building 4 How does it work 5 Adding new ports

SVN Checkout

You need to checkout the portsdk:

http://svn.abisource.com/abimacsdk/trunk/portssdk/

Rationale

It is important to limit the number of runtime dependencies. It is also important to build them within a controlled environment. For this reason, Apple already provide something called "SDK" which is designed to provide a chroot for all the system libraries and includes. The AbiMacSDK will use that to build the ports.

Building

mkdir /opt/abi

(you might need to do that as root. Make sure /opt/abi is writable by your user)

make

Now you can wait a while

How does it work

First it will copy the "SDK" from the Apple developer tools to use it as a base.

Second, it will download and build the dependencies, ready to use, and install them in both /opt/abi and into the SDK.

Adding new ports

TBD.