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The dbus Portfile 41334 2008-10-31 04:44:22Z jmr macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: dbus
Version: 1.2.4
Revision: 2
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Category: devel
Platform: darwin
Description: A message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another.

Long Description: ${description}

Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus
Master Sites: http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus

Checksums: md5 2e643910a09f44b000a0d76038637999 sha1 913d796b79802b6ee6ca2b0ef59c670f3fd79774 rmd160 0441eb8b668ed70250e484b02fe6a83c05c9a088

Patch Files: patch-dbus-launch-x11.c.diff

depends_build port:pkgconfig

depends_lib port:expat lib:libX11:XFree86

configure.args --disable-doxygen-docs --disable-xml-docs --with-x --x-includes=${x11prefix}/include --x-libraries=${x11prefix}/lib

configure.cflags-append -no-cpp-precomp

use_parallel_build yes

test.run yes
test.target check

pre-test {
if {![variant_isset test]} {
ui_error "test variant must be activated to enable test support."
error "Please enable test variant."
}
}

post-destroot {
foreach dir ${destroot.keepdirs} {
file mkdir $dir
}
}

destroot.keepdirs ${destroot}${prefix}/share/dbus-1/services ${destroot}${prefix}/var/run/dbus ${destroot}${prefix}/var/lib/dbus ${destroot}${prefix}/etc/dbus-1/system.d ${destroot}${prefix}/etc/dbus-1/session.d

startupitem.create yes
startupitem.name dbus
startupitem.init XDG_DATA_DIRS=${prefix}/share
startupitem.start "${prefix}/bin/dbus-daemon --system"
startupitem.stop "kill `cat ${prefix}/var/run/dbus/pid`"
startupitem.restart "kill `cat ${prefix}/var/run/dbus/pid` ; ${prefix}/bin/dbus-daemon --system"

pre-activate {
addgroup messagebus
adduser messagebus gid=[existsgroup messagebus] realname=Message\ Bus
}

post-activate {
file attributes ${prefix}/var/run/dbus -group messagebus -owner messagebus
file attributes ${prefix}/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper -group messagebus
system "dbus-uuidgen --ensure"
}

Variant: test description {enable tests} {
configure.args-append --enable-tests
}

Variant: no_x11 description {disable X11 support} {
configure.args-delete --with-x
configure.args-append --without-x
depends_lib-delete lib:libX11:XFree86
}

livecheck.check regex
livecheck.regex {D-Bus (\d+(?:\.\d+)*)}

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/dbus
%  sudo port install dbus  
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 dbus
--->  Verifying checksum for dbus
--->  Extracting dbus
--->  Configuring dbus
--->  Building dbus with target all

--->  Staging dbus into destroot

--->  Installing dbus

- 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 dbus with these commands:

%  man dbus
%  apropos dbus
%  which dbus
%  locate dbus

 Where to find more information: