Icon version 9.4.3 - How to Download and Install on Mac OS X
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    version 9.4.3

      View the most recent changes for the icon port at: icon.darwinports.com/diff
      Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for icon.
      The raw portfile for icon 9.4.3 is located here:
      http://icon.darwinports.com/dports/lang/icon/Portfile
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      The icon Portfile 57375 2009-09-10 08:16:41Z ryandesign macports.org $

      PortSystem 1.0

      Name: icon
      Version: 9.4.3
      Revision: 1
      Category: lang
      Maintainers: laposte.net:michael.grunewald
      Description: The Icon Programming Language
      Long Description: Icon is a high-level, general-purpose programming language with a large repertoire of features for processing data structures and character strings. Icon is an imperative, procedural language with a syntax reminiscent of C and Pascal, but with semantics at a much higher level.
      Homepage: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/
      Platform: darwin
      Master Sites: ${homepage}ftp/packages/unix/
      distname icon.v[strsed ${version} {g/\.//}]src
      extract.suffix .tgz
      Checksums: md5 4740b1fc5caf2fe7409367923dffe607 sha1 92bd3347807b333fb903edf61a2805f2e1159577 rmd160 af75af7f106920cd59a7f8ac85954aa472ae78e7

      universal_variant no

      configure.cmd make
      configure.pre_args
      configure.args X-Configure name=macintosh

      build.target All

      destroot.target Install
      destroot.destdir dest=${destroot}${prefix}/libexec/${name}

      post-destroot {
      foreach prog {icon icont iconx vib} {
      ln -s ../libexec/${name}/bin/${prog} ${destroot}${prefix}/bin
      }
      set doc_dir ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc
      xinstall -d ${doc_dir}
      ln -s ../../libexec/${name}/doc ${doc_dir}/${name}-${version}
      }

      livecheck.type regex
      livecheck.url ${homepage}status.htm
      livecheck.regex Version (\[0-9.\]+)

    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/icon
      % sudo port install icon
      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 icon
      ---> Verifying checksum for icon
      ---> Extracting icon
      ---> Configuring icon
      ---> Building icon with target all
      ---> Staging icon into destroot
      ---> Installing icon
    - 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 icon with these commands:
      %  man icon
      % apropos icon
      % which icon
      % locate icon

     Where to find more information:

    Darwin Ports



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