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Date:      Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:06:49 +0000
From:      Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>
To:        Da Rock <freebsd-ports@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
Cc:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [SUBMITTED] linux-f10-nss_ldap: my first port - be gentle :)
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On 14 January 2012 11:42, Da Rock
<freebsd-ports@herveybayaustralia.com.au> wrote:
> On 01/14/12 05:53, Boris Samorodov wrote:
>>
>> 13.01.2012 18:51, Da Rock =D0=C9=DB=C5=D4:
>>
>>
>>> Once submitted do the committers offer any advice on improvements?
>>
>> Yep, it happens from sometime.
>>
> Ok. I've submitted; but I have a problem viewing it on the pr web page.
> According to my mail system it has gone through hours ago. Is the system
> manual or automatic?
>
> One other thing: this process of porting (Makefiles and such) are these
> standard commands, functions, formatting for make? Or is it solely FreeBS=
D
> specific? Aside from policies and such of course...
>
> This is the first time I've used Makefiles to any such depth you see, so =
I'm
> curious to know where make stuff ends and the Freebsd tweaks begin. I kno=
w I
> have to read the mk files more thoroughly, but not even all the "quirks" =
in
> there would be completely FreeBSD in origin. So I suppose I'm asking how =
to
> tell the difference between the two.

We do have our own make (pmake), which is about as different as you
can get from gmake (GNU make).

You're better off finding a tutorial on how to write a Makefile; the
way ports ones are written doesn't give a good understanding on how
they normally work.

Chris

Chris



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