Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:30:20 -0600 From: drt360@mail.usask.ca To: ports@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <1055435420.3ee8aa9c894a7@webmail.usask.ca>
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Hi, I'm currently interested in becoming a port contributor. I have a few questions though. 1) Is there some list of applications that need someone to port for them somewhere? 2) I currently am working on a application that I would like to port however. It require the g77 compiler for fortran. This means that g77 would have to be installed via gcc in /usr/local/bin. However, the program requires g77, but gcc now labels g77-32. Therefore, my question is this: Should I let the application use any g77 compiler or should I require that it uses g77-32 specifically? I have noticed that open office requires specifically jdk 1.3 and won't work with 1.4 at the moment, is it better to do it this way to avoid the port becoming incompatible with other versions of g77. Also your documentation does not say much about how to detect an application with an unknown name. I would like to check for g77* but the * symbol does not appear to work for this env variable. If I were to write a script to do this, it should be invoked before the port installs the dependencies. I currently have a script at the pre-extract stage, but I think I want it earlier, perhaps the pre-build_dependencies stage if there is such a thing. 3) If this is not the right place to post these questions, is there a mailing list or something where I can do this on. Please let me know if I should not be posting such questions here. Thanks for your time Dave
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