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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: ports@freebsd.org
Subject: How to build port with no top-level Makefile?
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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 14:45:50 PDT
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Hi,

  I am trying to build a new port with no top-level Makefile.  The
package is meant to be built on multiple OS's so has subdirectories
for each platform, and all the makefiles refer to ../src/..., etc.
What I'm doing for now is putting a "files/Makefile" that has

all install clean:
        cd freebsd; $(MAKE) $@

and a scripts/configure that copies that to ${WRKSRC}.  Is there a
better way to do this?

  (I first tried using bsd.subdir.mk but the port requires GMAKE)

Thanks,

  Bill