Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 14:34:36 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@bloke.statsci.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Port Idea: nmh Message-ID: <m0wOVP3-000QdoC@bloke.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 May 1997 20:32:05 -0600." <E0wNUcH-0006vX-00@rover.village.org> References: <E0wNUcH-0006vX-00@rover.village.org>
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Warner Losh <imp@village.org> wrote:
> I haven't even thought about looking at this yet, but this looks like
> the sort of thing that people on this list would be keen on having a
> port to FreeBSD for. This is FYI in case someone with more free time
> than I gets to this before I commit it around Easter '99.
I've already built earlier versions of this on FreeBSD 2.1.5 at home
(which I'm soon upgrading to 2.2.1). I can probably try to grab the
latest version of nmh and put it together into a port sometime if nobody
else does. I think I might be able to get to it before Easter '98...or
hopefully sooner. :-)) I assume the handbook section(s) on putting
together a port would be in the 2.2.1 release somewhere, so it probably
shouldn't be too hard to do.
The biggest problem I had with it is that it was using some autoconf
macros that expand to sh code that doesn't work right with the FreeBSD
/bin/sh (& the results of my send-pr on the problem were that the FreeBSD
/bin/sh is bug-compatible with the definitive POSIX sh - the ATT ksh I
believe). If you go do some queries on the bug database for my email
address(es) below (or possibly scott@sabami.seaslug.org), you should be
able to find what I'm talking about.
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div)
1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109
Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
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