From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 22 02:17:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA16091 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 02:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sdev.blaze.net.au (sdev.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA15750 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 02:16:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (davidn@localhost) by sdev.blaze.net.au (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA13830 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 19:15:46 GMT Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 19:15:46 +0000 () From: David Nugent To: FreeBSD-ports Mailing List Subject: Documentation? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is there any documentation on how things are added to the FreeBSD ports collection? I have a few things that I wish to add, but would like to know how to go about it. Specifically, I was wanting to know: - how the makefile system works (ok, I can work out most of it, but it'd be nice if I could take some of the guess work out of it but, say, at least having the most common make variables documented in some fashion, and how things like dependancies between pacakges worked). - the procedure for getting a port added into the collection. I wanted to add jed/xjed, slrn and slang. The patches are minimal - really just modifications to the slang lib to build it shared as well as static. Some minor changes to jed's slang macro library as well. Also, I'd like to submit changes/enhancements to the Lynx 2.6 port to have it use slang (and therefore be in colour - which is really quite nice). Can two builds of a particular program be supported by the ports structure? David Nugent, Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn