From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 15 15:04:46 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 393901065670 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:04:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB118FC0A for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:04:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 48F32E81735; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:04:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:04:55 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Roland Smith Message-ID: <20101015150455.GA5439@thought.org> References: <20101014233028.GA26845@thought.org> <20101015010017.GA36117@slackbox.erewhon.net> <20101015012031.GA28439@thought.org> <20101015101646.GA47849@slackbox.erewhon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101015101646.GA47849@slackbox.erewhon.net> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: mkmf on Linux?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:04:46 -0000 On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:16:46PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 06:20:32PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 03:00:17AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:30:32PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > I tried my first minor build of an unusual program [that only a > > > > CLI geek like me would use]. But can't find the mkmf that I've > > > > used for years. I haven't found anything comparable in the > > > > Linux world. Has anybody else out there gotten our old '93 src > > > > mkmf installed on Linux? > > > > > > Even on FreeBSD mkmf 4.11 needs some patching to compile (as evidenced by the > > > devel/mkmf port), so I expect same goes for Linux. Maybe the FreeBSD patches > > > work? > > > > > > Roland > > > > We'll see. I have entirely forgotten howto use > > uuencode/uudecode [!!] -- well, it's been at least 13 years--so > > carefully transferring things by hand. > > Why not use netcat or rsync? Or copy the files to a USB stick to transfer it? > Haven't had use for uuencode for at least a decade. > > > Anyway, there is the 32 and 64 bit issues... . > > Compiles and runs fine here on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64, except for a warning > about mktemp. > > > gary > > > > PS: be nice to see [*esp'ly* ubuntu] get with it; maintain the > > older stuff. Even if it was back in the Eozoic:) > > A lot of people use the blighted evil twins autoconf and automake. Writing > plain makefiles seems to be relegated to us greybeards these days. :-) and > while a tool like mkmf is fine, I stick to my own makefile templates that I've > developed over the years. > I finally got uuencode working. Thanks to a cheatsheet an Indiana U. [[I *just barely remember ``uuencode tarball.tar tarball.tar > file.uue'']] --I mean, come ON, the man page and the useage() instructions are so far off, it isn't funny.-- Porting the rest by-hand. *mumble* > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org