Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 20:59:08 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu>, FreeBSD Ports <FreeBSD-Ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sample Makefile Message-ID: <10600.838958348@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Aug 1996 21:39:30 EDT." <Pine.OSF.3.95.960801213403.22340A-100000@fiber.eng.umd.edu>
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> That's why I asked at the beginning if this was the direction. I was > writing a Makefile for a human to read. You're asking for a machine > driven one, essentially useless for a human (one that doesn't know how to > write a ports Makefile from the beginning anyways). It should be obvious > that I wasn't pointing towards that. Yes, it was, and I wasn't really sure whether or not the human Makefile would work as a concept until I saw the size of yours. The sheer amount of reading one would have to do in order to use it in the full construction of a port is rather self-defeating if you're trying to make the process quicker and less knowledge intensive. > the idea of someone else doing that, but my own opinion is that such a > thing would too radically limit what you could get done in adapting the > software of some _not under your control_ to a FreeBSD environment. I Huh? The ports collection is *all about* adapting software not under your control to a FreeBSD environment! ;-) Jordan
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