From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Feb 8 14:12:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12409 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:12:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from qix (ppp006.infranet.fr [195.68.70.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12291 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:11:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmz@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from jmz@localhost) by qix (8.9.2/8.8.7) id XAA25599; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:14:22 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:14:22 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199902082214.XAA25599@qix> X-Authentication-Warning: qix: jmz set sender to jmz@qix using -f From: Jean-Marc Zucconi To: mph@astro.caltech.edu CC: charon@freethought.org, ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19990208090627.D38029@wopr.caltech.edu> (message from Matthew Hunt on Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:06:27 -0800) Subject: Re: IRAF X-Mailer: Emacs Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> Matthew Hunt writes: > On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:31:25PM -0800, charon@freethought.org wrote: >> Might I suggest that someone look into porting IRAF (an astronomy utility >> for image analysis, etc.) to FreeBSD? The IRAF website >> has a FreeBSD version of the program, but it's not >> in the ports collection. Sorry, I would try to make the port myself if I >> had half a clue what I was doing! Maybe I'll get around to it in a few >> years ;) > I have looked into this. It appears fairly non-trivial, and my > impression from their documentation is that the installation will > vary more from site to site than it does for most software. hmmm. I had a port of the previous version, and it was complex because I started from the solaris sources (at this time FreeBSD was not supported). If you read carefully the documentation, making a port for a supported system is not that difficult. However, last time I looked in the ftp site, not all sources were available. Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Zucconi PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.ORG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message