HELP needed by experienced porter for simple review

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:36:20 -0600, GP <godpost at gmail.com> wrote:

>>>>>  $(MKDIR) $(FILESDIR)
>>>>> $(CP) ${WRKSRC}/kissdx.in ${FILESDIR}
>>>>
>>>> I don't really like to create FILESDIR and move from WRKSRC to  
>>>> FILESDIR. The WRKDIR/WRKSRC are the place where you work anything  
>>>> inside. However, move from WRKSRC to FILESDIR might create problem in  
>>>> future so avoid that.
>>>
>>> When I leve it out I get this error:
>>> ===>  Installing for kissdx-0.13.10a
>>> ** Missing /usr/ports/distfiles/files/kissdx.in for kissdx-0.13.10a.
>>> *** Error code 1
>
>> Ummm... I went back to see your first orignal thread. I noticed that  
>> you put Makefile and others in /usr/ports/distfiles/? You should create  
>> 'kissdx' and 'kissdx/files' (mkdir -p kissdx/files) directories. You  
>> should make your port looks like this:
>
> OK its all moved to a handmade subdir. Probably nicer that way, but I  
> still have to make the files dir in the Makefile and put the script in  
> it! or am I missing something?
> Maybe I don't understand the files dir!!? could it mean that the startup  
> script can not come from the tarball? (I've done some work for including  
> FreeBSD stuff into the original package. So that would be a capitulation  
> to Linux then wouldnt it?: all is writen for Linux and then adapted for  
> FreeBSD :o)

Send me tarball of your update kissdx port and I will taking a peek.

Cheers,
Mezz

>> You should follow this below:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/rc-scripts.html
>> You put your 'kissdx.in' in kissdx/files/ and it will doing every thing  
>> for you as explained in rc-scripts.html.
>
> I'm sorry to say that i doesn't explain this for me. Porters handbook  
> still requires a lot of implicit knowledge. (But I'm getting there by  
> small increments :O)
>
> Thanks and BR
>
> /Simon


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