Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 07:54:17 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatic ports Makefile generator? Message-ID: <19556.838997657@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Aug 1996 16:27:07 %2B0200." <199608021427.QAA15279@grumble.grondar.za>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> grumble $ makeport > Makeport - 0.1-ALPHA > what is the name of your port? hello-1.3 > directory hello-1.3 found OK > file hello-1.3.tar.gz found OK > untarrring hello-1.3.tar.gz............OK > creating diff.....OK > removing original sources. > > Q&A Time! > > Does your port need GNU make? n > Does your port need imake? n > Does your port have its own "configure" script? y > ... That sounds pretty reasonable, though again I'd caution you against making `makeport' a monolithic utility which "knows" which questions to ask and rather design it as a fairly intelligent "ports variable description file" and a library of functions for dealing with it. Then you can write this Q&A sequence as a series of questions, as you show above, or you can later migrate to some much fancier Tk based thingie. Jordan
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19556.838997657>