From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Aug 1 23:18:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA22299 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 23:18:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA22294 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 23:18:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA06395; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 02:18:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA26987; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 02:19:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 02:19:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Chuck Robey , "David E. O'Brien" , FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: Sample Makefile In-Reply-To: <10600.838958348@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > sheer amount of reading one would have to do in order to use it in the > full construction of a port is rather self-defeating if you're trying > to make the process quicker and less knowledge intensive. I consider myself a relatively naive user and I don't think I find porting to be too knowledge intensive. I think, if you wanted really wanted to make it less knowledge-intensive it'd be necessary to modify bsd.port.mk to handle a much larger myriad of situations. From extracting shar files to automatically installing manpages. FWIW, I thought the searching-bsd.port.mk-to-see-what-do-extract-is-doing part (and co.) was fun. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk