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

O. Hartmann ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Thu Nov 18 11:18:18 UTC 2010


On 11/18/10 03:12, Rob Farmer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 16:58, O. Hartmann
> <ohartman at 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 be noneexistent,
>> instead ${SH} exists.
>
> Interesting - I assumed it would be listed in bsd.commands.mk, but it
> seems to not be. Most of the base system tools are. In any case, glad
> to hear you got it working.
>

Well,
in this case, it would really be a 'nice to have', maybe this is worth a PR?


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