Linux ports tutorial? WPS Office
Pedro Giffuni
pfg at FreeBSD.org
Thu Dec 14 14:15:46 UTC 2017
On 12/13/17 22:31, blubee blubeeme wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org
> <mailto:pfg at freebsd.org>> wrote:
>
> Hello;
>
>
> On 13/12/2017 21:11, Chris H wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:56:24 -0500 "Pedro Giffuni"
> <pfg at FreeBSD.org> said
>
> On 12/10/17 14:55, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> > 11.12.2017 2:22, Pedro Giffuni пишет:
> >> Hello guys;
> >>
> >> I would like to attempt a port for WPS Office (AKA
> Kingsoft Office):
> >>
> >> http://wps-community.org/
> >>
> >> Are there guidelines for linux ports? I couldn't find
> much details in the
> > handbook.
> >>
> >> In particular, how do you handle when the pkg-plist is
> different for i386
> > and amd64?
> >>
> >> Some ports use pkg-plist.${ARCH} but I don't know how
> those work.
> > Just have "USES=linux", "USE_LINUX_RPM=yes" and make
> these two files
> > pkg-plist.i386 and pkg-plist.amd64
> > and they are used automatically. Or you could duplicate
> a magic from
> > /ports/Mk/Uses/linux.mk <http://linux.mk> in your Makefile:
> >
> > PLIST?= ${PKGDIR}/pkg-plist.${LINUX_ARCH:S/x86_64/amd64/}
> >
> > For details, read Porter's Handbook:
> >
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/
> <https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/>
> >
>
> The handbook has no information about "USE_LINUX_RPM=yes".
> If I set that it appears the ports framework will ignore
> MASTER_SITES.
>
> Should I dig into the MK framework to see how to change
> the repository or should I use the .tar.xz distribution
> instead? :(.
>
> I'm not sure. But would having a look at the way
> emulators/linux_base-c(6|7)
> provide some clues?
>
>
> Not really but I think I found something in Mk/Uses/linux.mk
> <http://linux.mk>:
>
> For the case of USE_LINUX_RPM it is supposed to not do anything
> when MASTER_SITES is defined but it is somewhat messy, and somehow
> it always uses ${MASTER_SITE_CENTOS_LINUX}. Any port that uses RPM
> but not the Centos repositories?
>
> Just a thought, and hope it helps!
>
> Thanks, I just have to keep digging :(.
>
> Pedro.
>
>
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> The linux packaging is okay but I'd recommend learning how the porting
> process and not just wrapping up a linux binary in FreeBSD.
>
Well ... of course if I had the source code I would not be dealing RPMs
for the linuxulator.
Software can be free but not include source code. It can still be
desirable for FreeBSD.
> The main reason for that is you can port your way into a corner that
> relies on very Linux specific stuff that there's just no solution for
> yet nor will there be one unless you port the entire Linux kernel to
> FreeBSD.
>
Which is why we have a linuxulator.
Pedro.
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