Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 15:53:09 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel J. O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au> To: Nick Hibma <hibma@skylink.it> Cc: FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing List <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: modules in ports Message-ID: <XFMail.991204155309.darius@dons.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912031533180.268-100000@henny.jrc.it>
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On 03-Dec-99 Nick Hibma wrote: > Has anyone ever devised a good way to put a module in a port? Well the skip port creates a module.. > Maybe it is the more general question of how to relate modules to > other parts of the base system, like the kernel, downloadable firmware > files, etc. Urk! :) Creating a module which will build outside the source tree is fairly simple, for an example have a look at wpaul's if_dc driver which does this. Then you can just install in in /usr/local/share/myport/kld and load it from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/myport.sh --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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