Re: Portable Makefile ideas

2019-02-10 Thread Sad Clouds
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 19:53:21 +0100 tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/risk_comp_1.16.9.0.tar.gz > > It cost me at the beginning less time to write it than to try to > understand how the other tools work (and not all have the > requirements I mentionned). Hello,

Re: Portable Makefile ideas

2019-02-10 Thread Sad Clouds
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 19:47:02 +0100 Benny Siegert wrote: > My hot take on this: Don't roll your own build system. > > No matter how easy and portable you think you made it, it is not going > to be working for part of your users (think Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc., > with a number of architectures

Re: Install kernel and userland without source?

2019-02-10 Thread J. Lewis Muir
On 02/09, Greg Troxel wrote: > > "J. Lewis Muir" writes: > > > I have an amd64 router running the netbsd-8 stable branch that does not > > have sources and does not have pkgsrc, and I'd like to build the kernel > > and userland from source on another machine and then install them on the > >

Re: Portable Makefile ideas

2019-02-10 Thread tlaronde
Hello, On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 05:40:26PM +, Sad Clouds wrote: > Hello, I've been looking into ways of writing portable Makefiles and > would like to ask for ideas and find out what works for various people. > > First, I would like to set out a few basic requirements: > > 1. It needs to be

Re: xfce4 startup issue

2019-02-10 Thread Robert Nestor
Got a bit further on this problem. Tried a clean install of 8.0_STABLE and downloading the packages from the 8.0 archives. Xfce comes up and allows me to create terminal sessions and most functions seem to work, although I’m still seeing the “funky mouse” and window move problems. There are

Re: Portable Makefile ideas

2019-02-10 Thread Benny Siegert
My hot take on this: Don't roll your own build system. No matter how easy and portable you think you made it, it is not going to be working for part of your users (think Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc., with a number of architectures each), and it is not going to be trivial to understand for packagers.

Portable Makefile ideas

2019-02-10 Thread Sad Clouds
Hello, I've been looking into ways of writing portable Makefiles and would like to ask for ideas and find out what works for various people. First, I would like to set out a few basic requirements: 1. It needs to be small, simple and easy to maintain. So I guess this would rule out tools like