From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 26 20:24:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA29175 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 20:24:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.delanet.com (smtp@www.delanet.com [208.9.136.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA29154 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 20:24:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rugose@delanet.com) Received: from rugose ([208.9.136.17]) by www.delanet.com (8.8.4/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA07412; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 23:24:12 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199801270424.XAA07412@www.delanet.com> From: "Stephen Comoletti" To: "Greg Lehey" , "M S Anam" Cc: Subject: Re: Porting targets (was: os type) Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 11:22:21 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Just rename makefile.neb (NetBSD make file) to Makefile and run with that. It compiles clean first try on the 2.2.1 system I work with. Steve ---------- > From: Greg Lehey > To: M S Anam > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Porting targets (was: os type) > Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 6:18 PM > > On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 07:28:16PM +0600, M S Anam wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What would be the preferred list of OS in compiling/setting up something > > which does not have FreeBSD as an option? > > > > e.g. Pine, it has option for BSD, BSDi, NetBSD. Which one would I pick? > > Well, if you want to port pine, do: > > # cd /usr/ports/mail/pine > # make install > > To answer your question, though: > > If you have the choice BSD, BSDI (I don't think anybody calls it BSDi) > and NetBSD, you can probably assume that 'BSD' is less specific, and > thus possibly older (4.2BSD or 4.3BSD, depending on the package). > BSDI is usually closer to FreeBSD than NetBSD is, so I'd try that > first. Of course, you can always run into minor problems in any of > the three, and even for FreeBSD if it was developed for a different > version. > > Greg