On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 08:19:47PM +0530, Siju George wrote:
>>
>> It would be great if there can be a porter's handbook. i would atleast
>> like to make a try porting some stuff
>
> The pkgsrc developper's guide is your friend:
> http://w
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 08:19:47PM +0530, Siju George wrote:
>
> It would be great if there can be a porter's handbook. i would atleast
> like to make a try porting some stuff
The pkgsrc developper's guide is your friend:
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/developers-guide.html
--
Francois Tigeo
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Chris Turner
wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 03:03:58PM -0500, Stephane Russell wrote:
> > While porting programs to DragonFly, I had these issues (which are not
> > bugs):
>
> Excellent thread -
>
> have you considered maybe making a 'porting software' page on t
> If you have some text to validate, send it to me, along with the French for
> clarification if you think something isn't clear.
>
> Pierre
Well received! Give me some time to watch how things might be expected
on the Wiki and to collect some notes and I'll send you a resulting
document.
SR
On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 10:49:47AM -0500, Stephane Russell wrote:
> >> So at most, BSD forks can only be used seriously as strong servers. That's
> >> how I'm using dfly.
> >
> > FUD. All my desktop systems have been running on FreeBSD or DragonFly for
> > more than 10 years.
>
> That makes two s
I think expectations have changed over the years, but knowing that
a problem exists does not necessarily mean that it can be fully solved.
The Expectation for many new users these days is to have everything
handed to them on a platter, the whole works including the UI, ready
to
On Saturday 08 January 2011 11:28:28 Stephane Russell wrote:
> No, but I like this idea. I was thinking of getting involved with
> porting for some time already if there was some interest. If I go on
> with the Wiki page, I just hope my english will do, because I'm limited
> with this langage. Some
Le 2011-01-08 03:19, Chris Turner a écrit :
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 03:11:57AM -0500, Chris Turner wrote:
>> Excellent thread -
>
> yes - I realize this totally contradicts with my last post.
>
> I would like everything to "just work" - point is that will
> never happen unless ppl take the plu
> have you considered maybe making a 'porting software' page on the wiki?
>
> Thinking in general we could use a much more focused porting effort.
>
No, but I like this idea. I was thinking of getting involved with
porting for some time already if there was some interest. If I go on
with the Wik
>> So at most, BSD forks can only be used seriously as strong servers. That's
>> how I'm using dfly.
>
> FUD. All my desktop systems have been running on FreeBSD or DragonFly for
> more than 10 years.
> Sometimes the lack of a good Microsoft Word alternative is a bit painful,
> but with LibreOffic
Hi,
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 11:39:54PM -0500, Stephane Russell wrote:
> Hi, thanks for your reply, which I read carefully.
You're welcome.
> Logically, I think that if a system is not defining "BSD", than it's
> simply not a BSD, it's a BSD fork at most.
BSD has been dead since the nineties. No
On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 03:11:57AM -0500, Chris Turner wrote:
> Excellent thread -
yes - I realize this totally contradicts with my last post.
I would like everything to "just work" - point is that will
never happen unless ppl take the plunge and fix the bugs
so - like camping - take whats nece
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 03:03:58PM -0500, Stephane Russell wrote:
> While porting programs to DragonFly, I had these issues (which are not
> bugs):
Excellent thread -
have you considered maybe making a 'porting software' page on the wiki?
Thinking in general we could use a much more focused po
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 11:39:54PM -0500, Stephane Russell wrote:
> So at most,
> BSD forks can only be used seriously as strong servers. That's how I'm
> using dfly.
FUD!
Most of the things that don't work tend to be either:
- obscure corners of 'thick' desktop environments
(e.g. what d
Hi, thanks for your reply, which I read carefully.
>> - "BSD" is undefined in DragonFly, this isn't working:
>> #if (defined(BSD) && BSD >= 199306)
>
> Never saw this one.
>
> All tests I encountered in third-party software were looking for full OS
> names or OS-specific defines like "__FreeBSD__
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 03:03:58PM -0500, Stephane Russell wrote:
> While porting programs to DragonFly, I had these issues (which are not
> bugs):
>
> - "BSD" is undefined in DragonFly, this isn't working:
> #if (defined(BSD) && BSD >= 199306)
Never saw this one.
All tests I encountered in third
> both are excluding DragonFly, since uname -s return "DragonFly" and
> OSARCH is usually set to the same value. I can solve this by redefining
> OSARCH variable and UNAME_s shell variable as "DragonFlyBSD", which
> makes less work to do. But it doesn't seem very clean to me, so I'm not
> using it.
While porting programs to DragonFly, I had these issues (which are not
bugs):
- "BSD" is undefined in DragonFly, this isn't working:
#if (defined(BSD) && BSD >= 199306)
Some code might expect this to work for a BSD variant.
- In many autoconf scripts, BSD variants are grouped this way:
case ${
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