From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Apr 22 16:52:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA17407 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:52:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA17401 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:52:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA18978 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:52:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:52:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: My first port, just a few questions Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I printed out the section on making new ports from the handbook, and it really answered all of my port-specific questions. However, there's one more item I'm not sure how to deal with. I'm doing a JED port, which is a customizable editor, though not quite as large as EMACS. I'm planning on installing the doc files and info files, but I'm hitting a minor snag, which I suspect is because JED has an info mode. Here's a list of the info files included with JED. total 104 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1019 Jan 30 06:50 dir.info -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 27279 Jan 30 06:50 info.info -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 24226 Jan 30 06:50 jed.1in -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 24860 Jan 30 06:50 jed.2in -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 20588 Jan 30 06:50 jed.3in -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1574 Jan 30 06:50 jed.info The last 4 should probably just be copied to ${PREFIX}/info, but the first two aren't related to JED, but to JED's info mode. They won't overwrite anything on *MY* system, but do I take that chance in a port? can I check for file existance in the makefile? Or rather, how do I, I'm pretty sure I can but I don't know make that well.