On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Romeo, > > Am 12.06.2012 um 09:37 schrieb Romeo Theriault: >> Hello, First I'd like to start off by saying that mgar/gar is really >> cool. This is a much more automated process than I'm used to dealing >> with when building packages. (Not that I've built that many... still >> I'm impressed!) So thank you to the folks that are working on these >> pieces of software, I appreciate it. > > :-) > >> I'm new to building packages with mgar/gar, am new to "Makefiles" so >> please be patient with me. :) > > Sure. > >> Sounds like it only wants to build for solaris9... If this is the >> case, how do I make solaris 10 a 'necessary platform'? > > This is explained here: > http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/wiki/Platforms > >> On a slightly different topic, does the 'category' in the package >> Makefile influence the build in anyway, or is this just a way to >> categorize packages? > > Unfortunately it is a combination of both. Some categories are just > groupings (like "apps" and "lib") which are not used further on, > some are real "flavors" which change the behaviour (like "cpan"). > > See here for details: > http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/browser/csw/mgar/gar/v2/categories
Thank you for the pointers. That's what I was looking for. Romeo _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
