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The star Portfile 57375 2009-09-10 08:16:41Z ryandesign macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: star
Version: 1.5a89
Category: archivers
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: mww
Description: fast and POSIX 1003.1 conformant tar implementation
Long Description: ${description}

Homepage: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/star.html
Master Sites: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/
Checksums: sha1 03fa2f7cdc1890f11c6b83a1806a92a9599ddcde
Patch Files: patch-RULES__rules.prg.diff
use_bzip2 yes

depends_build port:smake

worksrcdir star-1.5

use_configure no

use_parallel_build no
build.cmd ${prefix}/bin/smake

destroot.destdir INS_BASE=${destroot}${prefix} MANDIR=share/man
post-destroot {
system "cd ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/ && rm -f gnutar mt tar && mv tartest startest"
system "cd ${destroot}${prefix}/share/man && rm -rf man1/gnutar.1 man1/match.1 man1/rmt.1 man3 man5/makerules.5 man5/makefiles.5 && mv man1/tartest.1 man1/startest.1"
file delete -force ${destroot}${prefix}/lib ${destroot}${prefix}/include
}

universal_variant no

livecheck.type freshmeat

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

--->  Staging star into destroot

--->  Installing star

- 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 star with these commands:

%  man star
%  apropos star
%  which star
%  locate star

 Where to find more information: