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

PortSystem 1.0

Name: octave-ann
Version: 1.0.2
Category: math science
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: and.damore alakazam
Description: The Octave-forge ANN package wraps the ANN library, which provides data structures and functions for computing exact and approximate nearest neighbors on an arbitrarily high dimensional point set.
Long Description: ${description}

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

distname ann-$version

Checksums: md5 3b383fdec459cf4f66c221e7b698aab0 sha1 5da0e67273316edbc127ab31bb3e15b89ec25a4f rmd160 4d74c6a5db17caf1d329c0fdac9fe068c0c1ddb5

depends_lib-append port:octave

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/ann-(\\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-ann
%  sudo port install octave-ann  
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-ann
--->  Verifying checksum for octave-ann
--->  Extracting octave-ann
--->  Configuring octave-ann
--->  Building octave-ann with target all

--->  Staging octave-ann into destroot

--->  Installing octave-ann

- 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-ann with these commands:

%  man octave-ann
%  apropos octave-ann
%  which octave-ann
%  locate octave-ann

 Where to find more information: