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On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Nik Clayton wrote:

> Has anyone reading this made any headway in adapting the FreeBSD ports
> system for other architectures? I remember seeing other similar queries
> posted in the past, but a search of the mail archives didn't turn up any
> responses.
> 
> I'm thinking in particular of adapting the ports system to Solaris.

A while back (still actually) I was interested in adapting the ports
system to Linux.  Thus having a full source tree, etc...

Jim Brinkerhoff

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