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# $Id: Portfile 30239 2007-10-23 01:55:09Z jmpp macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0
Name: c-ares
Version: 1.4.0
Category: net
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Description: asynchronous DNS library
Long Description: c-ares is a C library that resolves names asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named 'ares', written by Greg Hudson at MIT. The fork was made on ares 1.1.1.
Homepage: http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/
Platform: darwin
master_sites ${homepage}
checksums sha1 810074d2792ff5e996816aa52ff676bb102be885
configure.args --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --enable-shared

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

--->  Staging c-ares into destroot

--->  Installing c-ares

- 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 c-ares with these commands:

%  man c-ares
%  apropos c-ares
%  which c-ares
%  locate c-ares

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