requirements for bsd.xxx.mk file

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Fri Feb 10 05:28:38 PST 2006


Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:

> I've been doing a deployment of drupal at work and I've ported a couple
> modules with plans to port more.  I've built up a framework to make
> individual modules easy to port, but at the moment it's in the form of a
> Makefile and a pkg-install.in script that are mostly duplicated.  I'm
> wondering what the bar is for creating a bsd.xxx.mk.  How many ports are
> needed to justify the overhead?  Should I use a

I think you need more than 2... :-)

We have no rules here. So if you think for yourself the number of ports
reached the critical mass, just go ahead.

> ${PORTSDIR}/www/drupal/Makefile.common instead like PEAR does?

IMHO the Makefile.common approach is a nice way to prototype/develop a first
working initial version. While a bsd.xxx.mk file is the "ok, we have
something to base our effort on, let's make it official" approach.

Bye,
Alexander.

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