From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Nov 22 22:35:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from postoffice.aims.com.au (eth0.lnk.aims.com.au [203.31.73.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B75C37B405 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 22:35:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from postoffice.aims.com.au (nts-ts1.aims.private [192.168.10.2]) by postoffice.aims.com.au with ESMTP id fAN6ZCF04683 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:35:12 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from chris@aims.com.au) Received: from ntsts1 by aims.com.au with SMTP (MDaemon.v3.5.3.R) for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:35:11 +1100 Reply-To: From: "Chris Knight" To: Subject: RE: Master/Slave Ports Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:35:09 +1100 Message-ID: <018001c173e8$ffda7b80$020aa8c0@aims.private> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <017f01c173e3$b0d712a0$020aa8c0@aims.private> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Return-Path: chris@aims.com.au X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Howdy, OK, I've managed to solve this. I found the client/server ports for mysql very useful in solving this problem. Regards, Chris Knight Systems Administrator AIMS Independent Computer Professionals Tel: +61 3 6334 6664 Fax: +61 3 6331 7032 Mob: +61 419 528 795 Web: http://www.aims.com.au > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chris Knight > Sent: Friday, 23 November 2001 16:57 > To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Master/Slave Ports > > > Howdy, > > I'm looking at creating a port that only builds and installs > the library files for the database/firebird port so that mod_php4 > for example doesn't have to build the firebird database engine. > I've come across the reference of master/slave ports, but all the > examples I've seen in the ports tree are different. > What are the bare essentials that I need to know to be able to get > a firebird-library port to only build/install the library files? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message