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From: Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.org>
Organization: FreeBSD Project
To: Christopher Elkins <chrise@scardini.com>
Subject: Re: Building libraries from source
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 00:23:07 +0200
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Hi Chris,

> Does this mean that you'd prefer to hold off on adding new ports until (1)
> the shared directories have been determined/finalized and (2) the
> infrastructure for building from source is in place? I have a whole bunch
> of project dependencies for which I'd like to create ports. I can create
> binary ports now and update them later to build from source, but I don't
> want to create unnecessary work for committers.

Yeah, please hold off one more week max. I'm working on the standardization 
of the shared directories. After that my goal is to make some of the base 
ports build from source. That should be done within a week.

I would like to build Ant from source as soon as possible, but before that I 
want to make all dependency libraries from source first. Including for 
example xalan and xerces. If we can accomplish that, then that would be 
*really* nice. I know no OS that does something that advanced :)


Sincerely.

Ernst

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