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Date:      Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:52:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon)
Cc:        nate@mt.sri.com, chuckr@mat.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IBM Jikes (java source -> byte code compiler) released in open-source form
Message-ID:  <199812100552.VAA16802@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812100530.VAA54229@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Dec 9, 98 09:30:51 pm"

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Matthew Dillon writes:
> :Matt, do you want the honors?
> 
>     Ok, I'll try.  Having never created a port before, this may take a 
>     few hours :-)

It's fun & easy! :-) When I did the skip port, the only difficulty
I ran into is the requirement that you split the patch into separate
1-file-per-patch patchfiles... that port patches ~70 files.  I wrote
a little program called 'diffburst' to do this, given the input
from "diff -u -r ...".  Lemme know if you want it (should I commit
it to tools?)

Also, "make install; make deinstall" tells you if your PLIST is
incorret. I think there's something called "portlint" but I don't
know anything about it.

-Archie

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