From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Mar 18 10:34:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA12194 for doc-outgoing; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:34:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA12136 Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:34:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id TAA23339; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 19:15:20 +0100 (MET) Received: from knobel.gun.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knobel.gun.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA01234; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 19:16:24 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 19:16:24 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm To: Satoshi Asami cc: doc@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO make a FreeBSD port In-Reply-To: <199603180811.AAA02398@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * Ask Jordan. Some weeks ago he wanted me to write such a very beginner > : > * 2 hours for /dev/null, *sigh*, maybe I better had asked before doing > * the work... > > I wish you'd asked me (the ports manager) before, I have put a large > amount of work (measured in days if not weeks) to revitalize that > section, and it is quite complete now (I think). > > * But maybe there is demand for something like a "life example" ? > > Yes, I'll see if I can put it in there, it can be quite useful. But > before, can you please read the relevant section from the most > up-to-date handbook (you can get to it from www.freebsd.org) and > resubmit your "example"? You'll probably notice that there are quite > a few things that need to be changed. :) > > (I took a look at your submission the first time I saw it, one of the > reasons why I was so terse in the first mail was because I knew it > needed a big rewrite to even be considered going in there.) Ok, but could you please be more concrete, what would need to be changed ? The example itself works for me very well. Ok, my slang isn't perhaps that good, but I wanted to create a real life example, with all up's and down's ... Or can you write a port from scratch ? Ok, maybe you ;-)) But me myself has to fiddle around, until things work. And this _process_ to fine tune a port was the goal when I wrote this. Ok, maybe one could add some additional stuff... if you have a GNU source based on 'configure' you have generally to add this, if you have an X11 source you need that ... -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<< "Ich bleibe bei der Aussage und trotze den Flames. :-)" Ulli Horlacher 02/96