Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?

2010-11-18 Thread O. Hartmann
On 11/18/10 03:12, Rob Farmer wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 16:58, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Thanks. I got it. But it seems that my first porting task run into some difficulties for the advanced porters, since there is no autotool environment. By the way, the global

Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?

2010-11-18 Thread Rob Farmer
2010/11/18 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Well, in this case, it would really be a 'nice to have', maybe this is worth a PR? Try asking on the ports@ list. I'm not sure what the criteria is for something being listed there - if something isn't going to be used by very many ports, it

Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?

2010-11-18 Thread O. Hartmann
On 11/18/10 13:52, Rob Farmer wrote: 2010/11/18 O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Well, in this case, it would really be a 'nice to have', maybe this is worth a PR? Try asking on the ports@ list. I'm not sure what the criteria is for something being listed there - if something isn't

porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?

2010-11-17 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I try to create a port of a software which does not have a Makefile and is build via a propriate csh script. Installation is done temporarely into some lib's and exe's subfolder withing the source folder, so I need to tell the top level Makefile of the port to use a specific build

Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?

2010-11-17 Thread Rob Farmer
2010/11/17 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Hello. I try to create a port of a software which does not have a Makefile and is build via a propriate csh script. Installation is done temporarely into some lib's and exe's subfolder withing the source folder, so I need to tell the top

Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?

2010-11-17 Thread O. Hartmann
On 11/17/10 22:01, Rob Farmer wrote: 2010/11/17 O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Hello. I try to create a port of a software which does not have a Makefile and is build via a propriate csh script. Installation is done temporarely into some lib's and exe's subfolder withing the source

Re: porting software to FreeBSD, what to do if Makefile lacks?

2010-11-17 Thread Rob Farmer
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 16:58, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Thanks. I got it. But it seems that my first porting task run into some difficulties for the advanced porters, since there is no autotool environment. By the way, the global environment variable ${CSH} seems to