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# $Id: Portfile 30542 2007-10-31 01:16:34Z ryandesign macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: paq8
Version: 8o8
Category: archivers
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: root.id.au:josh+macports openmaintainer
Description: PAQ8, a tight but slow compressor
Long Description: PAQ is a series of open source data compression archivers that have evolved through collaborative development to top rankings on several benchmarks measuring compression ratio (although at the expense of speed and memory usage).

Homepage: http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/
master_sites ${homepage}
use_zip yes
distfiles paq${version}.zip
checksums md5 9114ae6a08ca8e82f37df9a6984c968d sha1 850c105ce7ae79ba4f9fa16087c0db8c717f6f11 rmd160 c3d4855bdbaeaada709af994e7439c57f58af99f

worksrcdir .
use_configure no

build.cmd g++
build.args -O3 -DUNIX -DNOASM -o paq8
build.target paq${version}.cpp

destroot.cmd install
destroot.target paq8
destroot.destdir ${destroot}${prefix}/bin

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/paq8
%  sudo port install paq8  
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 paq8
--->  Verifying checksum for paq8
--->  Extracting paq8
--->  Configuring paq8
--->  Building paq8 with target all

--->  Staging paq8 into destroot

--->  Installing paq8

- 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 paq8 with these commands:

%  man paq8
%  apropos paq8
%  which paq8
%  locate paq8

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