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From: "William R. Somsky" <wrsomsky@halcyon.com>
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Subject: Re: bind
In-Reply-To: <25227.889252110@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Mar 6, 98 10:28:30 pm"
To: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 02:38:52 -0800 (PST)
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> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

> >   What kind of process do you do to get packages in shape for
> > inclusion?  Other than the "it compiles out of the box" source code,
> > what tests are run, or at least, what has kept perl5 out of the
> > FreeBSD package?
> 
> They need to build with Berkeley Make, e.g. "bmaked".
> 
> For references, see /usr/src/contrib and some of the packages
> already there.

Um... I'm confused... /usr/src/contrib looks like the original code
to these things.  At least in -stable.  Isn't /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin
the "bmake-ified" versions where they're actually built from?

And we're talking about making perl5 the "default" perl,
ie the perl in /usr/bin/perl -- as opposed to the "port" perl,
/usr/local/bin/perl, which already exists and works, right?

I was thinking of taking a look at this, and rapidly saw that it's
not a trivial task, so had to skip it.  But for future reference,
I assume what's wanted here is to unpack, pre-"configure" and
"bmake-ify" any such package so that it builds as part of, and
in the same style as, a "make world" -- as opposed to the "use 
the packages own configure script, but trigger the right responses"
that the ports use?

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