Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 22:49:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: sylvia@infolytica.qc.ca (Fei) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <199706202049.WAA23616@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.94.970620151307.21577A-100000@porthos.infolytica.qc.ca> from Fei at "Jun 20, 97 03:22:40 pm"
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> Hi, > I want to have mkmf to work on my PC(running Windows NT), but I > don't really want to install the whole FreeBSD OS. Is it > possible to download only the mkmf port and compile on my PC, and get it > to work? It might be possible, but in FreeBSD a ``port'' consists of shell scripts, patch files and make files to make building and installating as easy as possible for *BSD platforms. It does not include the original source. So its not a good idea to use a port to install some freeware on Windows NT. It might be easier to use the original tarball as a starting point. The URL for this is ftp://ftp.uni-koeln.de/util/mkmf.tar.gz (found in the makefile of the port. > I cannot find the bsd.ports.mk file anywhere. On the Web Page, you > said that it is in /usr/share/mk, but the /share directory does not exist. > Would you please help me out? Thanks! The bsd.ports.mk won't help you much either, they are really meant for *BSD. The location in the web page refers to an installed FreeBSD system, not to the ftp subtree. Hope this helps paving your way to FreeBSD :-) Wolfgang
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