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In-reply-to: <199709212203.AAA08088@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> (message from Wolfgang Helbig on Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:02:54 +0200 (MET DST))
Subject: Re: gnat port
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * All three new ports ``build-depend'' on /usr/src/contrib/gcc and
 * /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc and make heavey use of the bsd.xxxx.mk
 * files.
 * 
 * To my knowledge this is unique in the ports collection. (bsd.port.mk
 * does not use any other *.mk files and a common port does not depend
 * on access to the FreeBSD source distribution.)
 * 
 * So I don't know whether my approach will be accepted by the
 * portsmeister. Do you hear, Satoshi?

Actually there has been a port submission (PR 3687).  I have exchanged
several rounds of e-mails, and I have something that I am going to
commit now.  It uses a separate tarball (gcc-2.7.2.1.tar.gz), so go
ahead and fix it to use /usr/src/contrib/gcc.

Of course, there is no problem with using *.mk files other than
bsd.port.mk.  (There are some ports that already do this -- see
math/linpack.)

Satoshi