Hello, my name is Jim Long and I'm interested in providing assistance to other developers who are working on making Evergreen easier to port to BSD Unix systems.
I have a lot of background with FreeBSD administration, but I'm new to both git and Evergreen itself. I have an intermediate level of exposure to SQL development (largely in PHP) and administration with Postgres and MySQL, and am pleased to see that Evergreen uses Postgres, my personal preference. I'm trying to follow Bill Erickson's Evergreen-on-FreeBSD installation procedure, and find that I am stuck on a couple issues. http://yeti.esilibrary.com/~berick/docs/eg_freebsd.html Working my way through the page, my first stumbling block is under the section 'Fetching the OpenSRF and Evergreen sources': su opensrf cd /home/opensrf git clone git://git.evergreen-ils.org/OpenSRF.git git clone git://git.evergreen-ils.org/Evergreen.git # XXX Add "working" remote for both repos and checkout the collab/berick/bsd-compat branch exit # su opensrf The two explicit git invocations worked fine, but I have no idea how to improvise on the theme of the commented 'XXX' line. Nevertheless I tried to press on. However, perhaps related to skipping over the collab/berick/bsd-compat git branch above, under the next section, 'Install OpenSRF', I have no file autogen.sh in the directory /home/opensrf/OpenSRF. Looking ahead in Bill's installation procedure, I can see there is no autogen.sh in /home/opensrf/Evergreen either. So that's where I am, I guess. I'd appreciate any suggestions or pointers to resources that might help me advance. And I would enjoy corresponding with other interested FreeBSD users. Thank you, Jim
