From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 15 18:35:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16024 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 18:35:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hp9000.chc-chimes.com (hp9000.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA16014 for ; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 18:35:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost by hp9000.chc-chimes.com with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA232827445; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 20:30:46 -0400 Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 20:30:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd.port.mk updates (was: Re: ports/7617:) In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > (3) /handbook/porting.html doesn't mention that. > > Are you sure? You must not be using the latest and greatest > version from ~10 minutes in the future. :-) 1.107 Sun Aug 9 22:20:29 1998 UTC by wosch Evidently not. :> > If you're volunteering to write a page (even a text, non-html > page) that lists the latest changes to bsd.port.mk, _AND_ to keep > that page up-to-date, I'll happily find a place for it. I'd volunteer to work on that and/or a NICE AND COMPLETE explanation of all the (many, poorly documented) Makefile options for ports, given that they were cvsup'able so multiple people could work on it. I'd be willing to head up or at least start something like that. Speaking from the point of a relativly new porter/submitter/contributor/whatever the documentation is foggy sometimes at best and sometimes wrong at worse. It would make ALL our lives easier if these sort of docs existed. For example, count how many ports with NO_CONFIGURE or NO_PATCH we get in the next 6 months... thoughts? anyone? - bill fumerola [root/billf]@chc-chimes.com - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800)252.2421 x128 / bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - BF1560 - "Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities" -Lord Dunsany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message