From owner-freebsd-ports Tue May 5 19:34:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA10002 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 19:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt053nd2.san.rr.com [204.210.34.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA09993 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 19:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20276; Tue, 5 May 1998 19:33:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <354FCC0E.936D593E@san.rr.com> Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 19:33:50 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0502 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ac199@hwcn.org CC: Chuck Robey , FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How-to question for port with no makefile References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > On Tue, 5 May 1998, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > Take a look at the x11 font stuff for the copying ... for the small > > binary, define NO_BUILD, and really build it in pre-build, which is a > > target you write completely in the ports makefile. > > What is the advantage of this over simply just redefining > do-build? I tried defining this in pre-build and couldn't make it go, although it's entirely popular that this was operator error. Defining it as do-build worked like a charm. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message