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The makeself Portfile 28979 2007-09-12 21:32:51Z nox macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: makeself
Version: 2.1.4
Category: archivers
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Description: A small shell script that generates a self-extractable archives

Long Description: makeself.sh is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable tar.gz archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script (many of those have a .run suffix), and can be launched as is.

Homepage: http://www.megastep.org/makeself/
Master Sites: ${homepage}
extract.suffix .run

Checksums: md5 43289565b68c3490a6904c4aed004d51 sha1 dbdd0b879c28ffba2dd5fb0ca20d3998edd3c8ea rmd160 ae8557d939de63b6767c4890d5761a62e4013a2a

Patch Files: patch-makeself.sh

extract {
system "sh ${distpath}/${distfiles} --nox11 --target ${worksrcpath}"
}

post-patch {
reinplace s| PREFIX |${prefix}|g ${worksrcpath}/makeself.sh
}

use_configure no

build {}

destroot {
xinstall -d ${destroot}${prefix}/libexec/makeself
xinstall ${worksrcpath}/makeself-header.sh ${destroot}${prefix}/libexec/makeself
xinstall ${worksrcpath}/makeself.sh ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/makeself

xinstall ${worksrcpath}/makeself.1 ${destroot}${prefix}/share/man/man1

set docdir ${prefix}/share/doc/${name}-${version}
xinstall -d ${destroot}${docdir}
xinstall -m 0644 -W ${worksrcpath} COPYING README TODO ${destroot}${docdir}
}

universal_variant no

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

--->  Staging makeself into destroot

--->  Installing makeself

- 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 makeself with these commands:

%  man makeself
%  apropos makeself
%  which makeself
%  locate makeself

 Where to find more information: