On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 04:13:10PM -0500, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 02:07:10PM -0700, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > > Volker Schlecht writes: > > > > What kind of gotcha can we get rid of, so that "new ports" will tend to > > > > be squeaky clean, infrastructure-wise, and ready for import. > > > An FAQ of sorts might *help*, particularly one addressing the more > > > typical beginner mistakes. What are the things that you guys immediately > > > look out for when a new name offers up a diff because they're usually > > > done wrong? > > > There's https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/ ; it's wide open for > > suggestions and improvements including possibly large-scale rewriting... > > Feel free to send a diff for it to ports@. > > Yes. Those of us well-versed in it are those most likely to miss putting > important details in the FAQ. > > --Kurt >
This thread has some great tips in it: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=163950488420152&w=2 It deals with BUILD, RUN and TEST_DEPENDS and when to use what. -- Chris
