Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 02:18:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org (FreeBSD ports list) Subject: Re: discussion of porting Ports to other things? Message-ID: <199610170918.CAA00993@relay.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.94.961016113735.2206A-100000@covina.lightside.com> from Jake Hamby at "Oct 16, 96 11:41:34 am"
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> md5 is easy. But fetch is impossible! Literally. It relies on aspects > of stdio that are only in 4.4BSD and there seems to be no portable > equivalent. This is one hellishly non-portable program! > > I would suggest anyone interested in a more portable ports-chain, consider > reimplementing libftpio and fetch in C++, or maybe some sort of C wrapper > to behave like 4.4BSD stdio. Any suggestions? (and don't say STREAMS! :-) Why not just got back to ncftp (version 1.x) like 2.0 - 2.1 used. Grab /pub/FreeBSD-CVS/share/mk/bsd.port* and use RCS to extract that version of the Makefile. -- David
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