Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 08:07:25 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting help Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9901120803340.16059-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <19990112063523.E12236@futuresouth.com>
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On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: # I'm working on putting a port together, and I've hit a few snags. # The port skeleton that I have is at: # <URL: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/bgrot.port.tar.gz>; # I stuck it in the 'graphics' category, though I'm not completely sure # that's the best. # Problems/quandries: # 1) In the porting section of the handbook, it mentions doing a 'make # checksum' to generate the files/md5 file, which I couldn't for the life # of me get to work right. I ended up manually md5'ing the file, and # duplicating the format of the other md5 files I see. It seems to work, # but I'm wondering if the 'make checksum' is supposed to work as # advertised or if it's right as it is. I think you want 'make makesum'. # 2) Manpages. I'm a little unclear on what exactly should be happening # here. The Makefile of the package itself (not the port skeleton) # compresses and installs the manpages as part of it's installation # routine. Does this mean I should: # a) make a patch to take that out, and use the MANx variable? # b) include the manpage in the PLIST? # c) something else? Use MANx and MANCOMPRESSED=yes. # 3) portlint is spewing: # {~/tmp/tmpport/graphics/bgrot} mortis:{1604} %portlint . | grep ^WARN # WARN: extra item placed in the *_DEPENDS section, for example, "USE_PERL5". # Does this mean I should do this some other way? # USE_PERL5= yes # RUN_DEPENDS= xv:${PORTSDIR}/graphics/xv Swap the order of the two lines and put a blank line between them. # # That's all I've found just in theoretical; I haven't tried any of the # actual install/etc as a port, just trying to get it clean-looking for the # moment. You might also like to add 'FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS=-b' since I had trouble getting both the portball and the distfile. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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