Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 10:18:58 -0700 (PDT) From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@mammalia.org> To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: strip not recognizing file format Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005041018020.7207-100000@manatee.mammalia.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000504072640.conrads@home.com>
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On Thu, 4 May 2000, Conrad Sabatier wrote:
>
> On 04-May-00 R Joseph Wright wrote:
> > I'm trying to create a port (my first one) for Blue Moon Rendering
> > Tools. There is no source code available for it :( but there is a linux
> > binary available.
> > There are a number of binary executables in this package, and I have
> > gotten this far:
> >
> > ===> Installing for linux-bmrt-2.5
> > /bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/share/doc/bmrt/
> > /bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/share/doc/bmrt/html/
> > /bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/share/examples/bmrt/
> > /bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/share/bmrt/
> > /bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/share/bmrt/shaders/
> > install -c -s -o root -g wheel -m 555
> > /usr/ports/graphics/linux-bmrt/work/BMRT2.5/bin/composite /usr/local/bin
> > install -c -s -o root -g wheel -m 555
> > /usr/ports/graphics/linux-bmrt/work/BMRT2.5/bin/farm /usr/local/bin
> > /usr/libexec/elf/strip: /usr/local/bin/farm: File format not recognized
> > *** Error code 70
>
> Ran into the same thing while porting XSwallow, which is in aout format.
> Wound up doing the strip by explicitly invoking /usr/libexec/aout/strip,
> which produces a warning in portlint about explicit paths.
>
> Yes, it looks like the ${PORTSDIR}/Mk stuff could be a bit smarter in this
> respect. The same goes for the ${INSTALL_*} macros, too.
>
> --
> Conrad Sabatier
> http://members.home.net/conrads/
> ICQ# 1147270
>
>
Upon further inspection, I discovered that two of the "bin" files were
actually perl scripts and that was what the problem was :).
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