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The octave-database Portfile 58230 2009-09-24 16:45:22Z ryandesign macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: octave-database
Version: 1.0.4
Category: math science
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: and.damore alakazam
Description: These are bindings that allow SQL queries and other database operations on postgres, mysql, sqlite, and standard ODBC databases from within Octave.
Long Description: ${description} A simplified interface that is uniform across all database types is provided, as well as the entire C client API for each database (libpq, libmysqlclient, etc).

Homepage: http://octave.sourceforge.net/
Master Sites: sourceforge:octave

distname database-$version

Checksums: md5 3de89d16ad1c5945ebcb90f8759803b0 sha1 ee62edd5c213bc18a9be0a5696ab418b1887b2de rmd160 6e768f1633e5f1f53c0224956135028459b0a505

Patch Files: patch-sqlite3_wrap.cpp.diff patch-odbc_wrap.cpp.diff

depends_lib-append port:octave port:swig port:postgresql82 path:bin/mysql_config5:mysql5 port:sqlite3 port:unixODBC

post-destroot {
move ${destroot}${prefix}/share/octave/octave_packages ${destroot}${prefix}/share/octave/octave_packages_${name}
}

post-activate {
system "octave --eval \"pkg rebuild\""
}

livecheck.type regex
livecheck.url http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html
livecheck.regex http://downloads\.sourceforge\.net/octave/database-(\\d+(\\.\\d+)*)\.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/octave-database
%  sudo port install octave-database  
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 octave-database
--->  Verifying checksum for octave-database
--->  Extracting octave-database
--->  Configuring octave-database
--->  Building octave-database with target all

--->  Staging octave-database into destroot

--->  Installing octave-database

- 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 octave-database with these commands:

%  man octave-database
%  apropos octave-database
%  which octave-database
%  locate octave-database

 Where to find more information: