Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 18:50:14 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> To: Sue Bauer-Lee <sblee@eeyore.taz.tac.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bulding new versions Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980303184514.1326B-100000@james.hwcn.org> In-Reply-To: <199803030443.XAA22387@eeyore.taz.tac.com>
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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Sue Bauer-Lee wrote: > > My favourite autoconf scripts are the ones that don't probe > > deeply enough. For any potential autoconf-script-writers out [...] > > I like this idea. Wonder what would be required to make it happen. Better documentation and a style guide from the GNU autoconf people. > even if there was a way to 'customize' what currently exists; i.e. modify > options that some of the scripts use (fetch -p), how it handles the export FETCH_CMD="fetch -p" Which is documentated in ports(7). :) > inability to gain access to ftp sites that it tries to download files from > and gets rejected, etc. Came across an interesting one today. I think it > was a downloaded copy of fvwm95. Options in the 'make install' required > GNU utility arguements that the FreeBSD versions didn't support - such as > 'cp -vp' and 'ln -svf' to name a couple. End result, rather than fight all I'm not sure I understand. If you're using the official port of fvwm95, it should not be trying to run commands that FreeBSD doesn't support. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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