From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Aug 18 7:13:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4764E37B400 for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 07:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp01.web.de [194.45.170.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD9343E6E for ; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 07:13:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from henrik.motakef@web.de) Received: from dsl-213-023-026-129.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.26.129] helo=pokey.henrik-motakef.de.web.de) by smtp.web.de with esmtp (WEB.DE(Exim) 4.75 #2) id 17gQnp-0004ja-00; Sun, 18 Aug 2002 16:13:13 +0200 To: Kevin Golding Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: making a new port - make install wants to strip a shell script References: <6knqakBAw4X9EwwV@caomhin.demon.co.uk> From: Henrik Motakef In-Reply-To: <6knqakBAw4X9EwwV@caomhin.demon.co.uk> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Date: 18 Aug 2002 16:23:21 +0200 Message-ID: <8765y8mejq.fsf@pokey.henrik-motakef.de> Lines: 21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Kevin Golding writes: > I'm trying to build a new port. Building from source seems to have gone > well enough, I made a Makefile and assorted extras to help the build but > when I tested it the thing died here: > > Installing allegro-config to /var/tmp/allegro/bin > /usr/libexec/elf/strip: /var/tmp/allegro/bin/allegro-config: File format > not recognized [...] > Now allegro-config is a shell script which explains the error. Is allegro-config one of your assorted extras? (I guess so; if your port is Allegro Common Lisp, it doesn't contain such a script AFAIK) If so, how do you install it? You should use ${INSTALL_SCRIPT}, not ${INSTALL_PROGRAM}, because the latter will try to strip the installed program. Regards Henrik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message