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The h4h5tools Portfile 57375 2009-09-10 08:16:41Z ryandesign macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: h4h5tools
Version: 2.0
Category: science
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: dal.ca:tom.duck openmaintainer

Description: HDF4 to HDF5 conversion tools.
Long Description: Provides the h4toh5 conversion utility and library.

Homepage: http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/h4toh5/
Master Sites: ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/h4toh5/src/
distname h4h5tools_20

Checksums: md5 fda518fb9441fb04ca9f9b3ae0688260 sha1 eb26d1c094d5d2ab9bef2b488cdbba709ebe6ca3 rmd160 19a452244b3d4b6afa3f26ff0bd3b713b469e566

depends_lib-append port:hdf5 port:hdf4 port:netcdf

configure.cc ${prefix}/bin/h4cc

# Setting H4_HAVE_NETCDF overcomes a bug in the distribution. This has been
# communicated upstream, and hopefully will be fixed.
configure.cflags -DH4_HAVE_NETCDF

post-destroot {
xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}
xinstall -m 644 -W ${worksrcpath} README.txt COPYING copyright.html ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}

xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}/doc/pdf
xinstall -m 644 -W ${worksrcpath}/doc H4H5ProgrammersNotes.pdf h4toh5lib_RM.pdf h4toh5lib_UG.pdf ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}/doc/pdf

xinstall -m 755 -d ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}/doc/html
xinstall -m 644 -W ${worksrcpath}/doc h4toh5lib_RM.html h4toh5lib_UG.html ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}/doc/html
}

livecheck.type regexm
livecheck.url ${homepage}
livecheck.regex {Latest Official Release of H4 / H5 Conversion Library:.?<[^>]*>([0-9]+\.[0-9])}

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/h4h5tools
%  sudo port install h4h5tools  
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 h4h5tools
--->  Verifying checksum for h4h5tools
--->  Extracting h4h5tools
--->  Configuring h4h5tools
--->  Building h4h5tools with target all

--->  Staging h4h5tools into destroot

--->  Installing h4h5tools

- 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 h4h5tools with these commands:

%  man h4h5tools
%  apropos h4h5tools
%  which h4h5tools
%  locate h4h5tools

 Where to find more information: