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TIX-PORT(8)

System Manager's Manual

TIX-PORT(8)

NAME

tix-port —

download, patch, build, install, and clean a port

SYNOPSIS

tix-port

[

--build=triplet

] [

--cache-package

] [

--collection=collection

] [

--destination=directory

] [

--end=step

] [

--exec-prefix=prefix

] [

--generation=level

] [

--host=triplet

] [

--make=path

] [

--makeflags=makeflags

] [

--prefix=prefix

] [

--source-port=source-port

] [

--start=step

] [

--sysroot=directory

] [

--tar=path

] [

--target=triplet

] [

--tmp=directory

] [

--mirror=url

] [

--mirror-directory=directory

] port

DESCRIPTION

tix-port manages the build of a port(5) of software for this operating system by downloading the source code, applying the patches, building the port, and installing the binary package. Many of the options are forwarded to the low-level tix-build(8) which performs the build once the source code has been prepared. tix-port is usually invoked through development(7) for the official ports.

The mandatory port argument is the directory where the port's source code will be placed and the port(5) file is found by adding .port to this path. The downloaded upstream releases are placed in the created port.mirror cache directory, the source code is extracted in the port directory with the port.patch, port.execpatch, and port.rmpatch patches applied if they exist, and the port.version stamp file is created to avoid reextracting the port if the right version is already extracted.

The options are as follows:

--build=triplet

The platform triplet for the machine the port is built on. (Default: Automatically detected.)

--cache-package

Skip the build if the binary package already exists and is the right version.

--collection=collection

Install the binary package into this collection created with tix-collection(8). (Default: --sysroot plus --prefix)

--destination=directory

The binary package is placed inside this directory.

--end=step

Stop the build after this step:

start: The start step before anything has happened.
download: Download the source code.
extract: Extract the source code and apply patches.
tix-build-start: The start step in tix-build(8).
clean, pre-clean: Clean the source directory before the build.
configure: Configure the port.
build: Build the port.
install: Install the port into the DESTDIR.
post-install: Run the post-installation script.
post-clean: Clean the source code after the port.
package: Create the binary package.
tix-build-end: The end step in tix-build(8).
strip: Strip the executables in the binary package.
diff: Regenerate the patches if in development.
tix-install: Install the binary package.
end: The end step after everything has happened. (Default)

--exec-prefix=prefix

The prefix where architecture dependent files are installed. (Default: --prefix)

--generation=generation

Create a binary package in the format of this tix generation level. (Default: 2)

--host=triplet

The platform triplet for the machine the port will run on. (Default: --build)

--make=path

Which make(1) to use. (Default: MAKE if set and otherwise make(1))

--makeflags=makeflags

Override the MAKEFLAGS variable inherited by make.

--prefix=prefix

Build the port into this prefix. (Default: The empty prefix designating the root directory)

--source-port=source-port

The source code for the SOURCE_PORT per port(5) will be placed in the source-port directory along with the mirror and version file where the source port's file is found by adding .port to this path. (Default: ../$SOURCE_PORT/$SOURCE_PORT)

--start=step

Start the build at this step (see --end). (Default: start)

--sysroot=directory

The system root to use while building and installing the port. The toolchain is wrapped to transparently use this sysroot during the build.

--tar=path

Which tar(1) to use during the build. (Default: tar(1))

--target=triplet

The port's outputs targets this platform triplet. (Default: --host)

--tmp=directory

Place temporary files in this directory. (Default: TMPDIR if set otherwise /tmp)

--mirror=url

First attempt to download the upstream releases from the port's source code mirror at url before attempting the upstream site. The files are copied from the filesystem if the url has no schema.

--mirror-directory=directory

Place the downloaded upstream releases in this directory in the layout that can be used as a mirror for the --mirror option. (Default: port.mirror)

EXIT STATUS

tix-port will exit 0 on success and non-zero otherwise.

EXAMPLES

A port(5) called example.port with optional patches example.patch, example.execpatch, and example.rmpatch can be downloaded, extracted, patched, built and installed into the /local prefix for non-system software by running:

mkdir -p /local # if not already done 
tix-collection /local create # if not already done 
tix-port --prefix=/local example

This command makes a example directory with the patched source code, a example.version version stamp file to avoid unnecessary reextractions, a example.mirror cache directory with the downloaded upstream release, and the example.tix.tar.xz binary package, which is installed into /local. The --end=strip option can be used to just get the binary package (and not install it) by stopping after the binary package has been stripped.

HISTORY

tix-port originally appeared in Sortix 1.1 as a networked higher level interface around the lower level tix-build(8) from Sortix 0.8.

April 10, 2022

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