Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 00:08:24 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Static CVSup still possible? Message-ID: <20030802220824.GA16718@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20030802174038.F38021@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <20030802174038.F38021@zoraida.natserv.net>
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On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 05:47:56PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I used to be able to install CVsup and just copy the cvsup program to > other machines. I just tried it today and on the target machine (an old > 4.5 machine) it complained about some missing libraries. > > Is it still possible to build CVsup in such a way that one could just copy > the cvsup file to another machine? Yes. Doing: cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup make -DSTATIC install should result in a statically linked cvsup binary being installed that can later be copied elsewhere. > > How about making a package or a binary distribution? > > I tried "make package", and got a package, but on the target machine it > then needed a number of other ports. At the time the machine did not have > a port directory and no cvsup. :-( > > I ended up making a gzipped tar file of one of my machines ports directory > and am now building cvsup from sources (also had to manually copy > /usr/share/mk/bsd.port* files) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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