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Date:      Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:36:55 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD ports list !!!! <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 'porting' AMD compiler suite
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2016, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

> On 04/10/16 20:22, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Sun, 10 Apr 2016, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> 
>>> Or set the (g)make variable 'MAKE' to gmake & let it propogate ....
>> 
>> What you are doing is, in effect, creating a port.  If you create a real 
>> port, there are numerous tools to deal with just this sort of problem, like 
>> USES=gmake.
>> 
>> The Porter's Handbook describes the whole process of creating a port: 
>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/
>
> I wasn't planning to go that far to start with, but that could change. I am 
> having to edit a largish # of the source files to comment out '#include 
> <malloc.h>' lines, is there a way to automate that for port/pkg maintenance ? 
> I haven't reviewed the porters-handbook (yet), but I have hit that snag to 
> start with ....

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.html#slow-patch-automatic-replacements



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