Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:15:43 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> To: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org (FreeBSD ports list) Subject: Re: discussion of porting Ports to other things? Message-ID: <199610212215.XAA00999@vector.jhs.no_domain> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Oct 1996 02:18:12 MST." <199610170918.CAA00993@relay.nuxi.com>
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Hi, Reference: > From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu> > > > 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. No need :-) Just use current mk/ stuff with setenv FETCH_CMD ncftp setenv FETCH_BEFORE_ARGS -N It works for nearly everything (there are a couple of things need fetch though). Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/
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