From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Sep 12 03:06:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA26124 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 03:06:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA26116 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 03:06:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id DAA04184; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 03:05:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "David E. O'Brien" Message-Id: <199609121005.DAA04184@relay.nuxi.com> Subject: Re: port of su2 To: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 03:05:32 -0700 (PDT) Cc: obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu, freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from John-Mark Gurney at "Sep 12, 96 02:50:43 am" X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, David E. O'Brien wrote: > > I was going to add this last line but I didn't have a ports collection > handy :( It's always good to have a ports collection handy, it doesn't take up that much disk space (or even from an old 2.1 CDROM). As a rule, I can cut-and-paste anything given an example. When I start a new port, I usually find a port with issues close to what I need (ie. GNU autoconfig, or .shar.gz files), and use that as a templete. I've been able to find an example of just about anything I need to doing a port. Also saves Satoshi and Chuck a little work if you copy stuff they've already approved/fixed. -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)