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Date:      Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:13:18 +0100
From:      Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de>
To:        Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
Cc:        ports-list freebsd <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Xournal: Please, help me with my first port
Message-ID:  <4D3AF40E.7090301@janh.de>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinU4rCAhgW2=3eNTPgPdftPDn8KiBF_ORGmVqtX@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4D39FEBA.3000806@janh.de> <AANLkTimSe3wBQ_FPdfDtgcLH-bDXsDfX2AZ3hsD5Xff4@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinU4rCAhgW2=3eNTPgPdftPDn8KiBF_ORGmVqtX@mail.gmail.com>

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On 01/22/2011 14:04, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 22 January 2011 12:53, Chris Rees<utisoft@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 21 January 2011 21:46, Jan Henrik Sylvester<me@janh.de>  wrote:
>>> Finally, I found an application worse having that is not in ports and looked
>>> simple enough to try: Xournal is my first attempt to create a new port.
>>>
>>> I followed the handbook and did the basic testing with porttools: There are
>>> warnings about considering to use DATADIR if the port was DATADIR-safe, but
>>> I do not assume it to be.
>>>
>>> Moreover, there is a warning about my post-patch line. I think the warning
>>> is wrong, but I am unsure about that line anyhow. The desktop-install target
>>> in Makefile.in is wrong for FreeBSD, but there is probably a better way to
>>> fix it.
>>>
>>> Is my attempt to use the desktop-install target via post-install correct?
>>>
>>> Do all the files installed by the post-install target go to the correct
>>> locations?
>>>
>>> Is there anything else I should fix before submitting the port as pr?
>>>
>>> In case the attachment does not make it to the list, I have placed a copy
>>> here: http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/sylvester/xournal.shar
>>>
>>
>> The DATADIR whines are addressed in this patch, have a look:
>>
>> http://www.bayofrum.net/~chris/patches/xournal-pkg-plist.diff

Thanks, but since the port does not honor DATADIR, it should not be 
there -- or the DATADIR case must be fixed first.

>> That's all I had time to look at at the moment, perhaps others can help!
>>
>
> Alright, came back and now the patch has the desktop-install target
> defined instead of using the post-install. This is reflected in the
> patch linked above ^^^

Thanks, I was looking for something like that, but it should be 
"INSTALL_TARGET= install desktop-install", because desktop-install does 
not include install.

> I've stuck it in my Tinderbox for testing, follow it here:
> http://tinderbox.bayofrum.net/index.php?action=describe_port&id=196

Thanks!

I do not know Tinderbox enough to understand, why your mkfontscale build 
tried to install an outdated version of freetype2.

Cheers,
Jan Henrik



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