Problems about making a new port

[HU Dong]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Jason E. Hale <bsdkaffee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 10:10:48 HU Dong wrote:
>
> > As for "/usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt", it's a cert file
> installed
> > by security/ca_root_nss. I can't figure out how to determine its
> > location automatically, but I think ${PREFIX} is not proper either, so I
> > replace /usr/local with ${LOCALBASE}.
> >
> I've looked over this port a lot closer and it doesn't seem like this
> replacement is really necessary.  The user can define the location of the
> cert
> in ~/.xombrero.conf with the ssl_ca_file variable.
>
> > Now it seems that the only problem left is to create a wrapper script for
> > the binary. I don't know where to find tutorials. Is there a google
> example
> > that I can refer to? Roughly, I need to know where to place the original
> > binary, how to name the wrapper, whether there's anything additional to
> do
> > except copying files and executing the original binary, etc.
> >
> I'm not sure this is the right thing now since I looked at that script and
> it
> requires www/get_flash_videos and multimedia/mplayer.  You could make them
> optional dependencies, but I wouldn't install the script to the users home
> directory unless get_flash_videos and mplayer are installed.  It might be
> better to leave it up to the user since they will have to manually install
> .xombrero.conf anyways.  Maybe a pkg-message would be more appropriate.
>
> I was bored and had some free time, so I fixed up the port and put it in my
> Redports SVN repo:
> https://redports.org/browser/bsdkaffee/www/xombrero
> Build logs here:
> https://redports.org/buildarchive/20120731145106-5752/
> Clang build failed do to devel/gobject-introspection
>
> Feel free to use any of the changes I made.  Many of the changes were
> things I
> said in my previous mail.
>
> I did away with the do-build target and left that up to bsd.port.mk by
> defining MAKE_ARGS and BUILD_WRKSRC.  This will make it easier in the
> future
> if you want to make the port use either webkit-gtk2 or webkit-gtk3 (when it
> get in the ports tree).  Plus we need to pass PTHREAD_CFLAGS and
> PTHREAD_LIBS
> to make.
>
> - Fixed some hardcoded paths and the use of -pthread directly in the
> Makefile.
> - Added -D_GCRYPT_IN_LIBGCRYPT=1 to the Makefile to squash the warnings.
> - Moved one of the reinplaces to a proper patch.  Reinplaces are more for
> fixing paths and multiple instances of things.
>
> Regards,
> Jason E. Hale
>

Thanks, Jason! You really helped a lot! I'll merge these changes to my
files.

HU Dong