From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Sep 4 16:53:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (gsi.enoreo.on.ca [209.82.52.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 458B437B422 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 16:53:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zircon (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.130.87]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.10.1/8.9.2) with SMTP id e84Nqw942823 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 19:53:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <000b01c016cb$41e913a0$1200a8c0@zircon> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: Subject: Updates to http://www.freebsd.org/porters-handbook/porting-autoplist.html Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 19:52:51 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org http://www.freebsd.org/porters-handbook/porting-autoplist.html This is a great help to porters, however, due to issued with GNU autoconf and dependencies, it is essential that all build directories for ports and their dependencies are fully cleaned, in order to obtiain all the information needed to auto-generate the PLIST. Thus, the following should be inserted between the "First, make sure your port..." and "Next, create a new set" sections. < new > Next, completely clean the build directories for your port and all dependencies. This will ensure that all files and directories will be properly enumerated during the creation of the PLIST. # make clean < /new > -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message