Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:21:04 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My First Port Message-ID: <20070705132104.GI46809@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <7DC8544585C7B7B23C7374CA@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> References: <20070703182834.GA70894@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <131F5B7A274BB3D15F1D1B70@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20070704132845.GA76491@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <20070704144933.GG57271@e.0x20.net> <7DC8544585C7B7B23C7374CA@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local>
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On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:53:45PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On July 4, 2007 4:49:33 PM +0200 Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:28:45AM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:53:46PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> >> > .... good comments deleted
> >>
> >> Thanks, Shaun and Paul. I appreciate the help. Changes made,
> >> portlint ran, port re-tested, PR submitted.
> >>
> >> Somebody stop me before I port again! :-)
> >
> > No, Sir!
> >
> > Porting is fun, so we won't stop you from having fun.
> > And if you're stuck with a more complicated port, just ask
> > for help. There are a lot of helpful maintainers and committers
> > around. :)
> >
> Speaking of difficult ports.....
>
> I'm working on the upgrade to security/bro. It's a royal PITA. The author
> hardcodes destinations for everything so that the software doesn't follow
> FreeBSD conventions at all, *and* there's no "master" setting that you can
> alter in configure or the top level Makefile.in file. So, I've had to edit
> almost every Makefile.in in the distro to get the darn thing to behave.
> Even the docs don't want to install where they should!
>
> Here's my FILESDIR:
>
> ls files/
> patch-Makefile.in patch-policy-Makefile.in
> patch-aux-scripts-Makefile.in patch-policy-sigs-Makefile.in
> patch-configure patch-scripts-Makefile.in
> patch-doc-quick-start-Makefile.in patch-scripts-s2b-bro-include-Makefile.in
> patch-doc-ref-manual-Makefile.in
> patch-scripts-s2b-example-bro-files--Makefile.in
> patch-doc-user-manual-Makefile.in patch-src-Makefile.in
>
> {{{sigh}}}
>
> I have one last problem. This software installs another piece of software
> named "broccoli" (don't ask), and for some reason broccoli puts it's lib
> files in PREFIX/share. I can't seem to find why it's doing that. I grepped
> for libdir and it always appears as EPREFIX/lib, which is correct. If anyone
> wants to take a look at this thing and figure it out, I would be grateful.
> It's the one last piece I need to get this thing working as expected.
>
> You can download the source here: <ftp://bro-ids.org/bro-1.1d-stable.tar.gz>;
Paul,
As I mentioned before, I took a stab at this port a while ago and came
to the same conclusions. I'll gladly take a look at where you are and
see if I can help you out at all. Can you send a patch of where you
currently are so I can take a look?
-- WXS
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