On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Jason Beaudoin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > while the ports checklist has been helpful, there isn't much out there > about getting the build process to work when it fails on you. Should I > be looking in bsd.port.mk for more information? (I am currently having > trouble getting ports to run the configure script and generate a > Makefile for gmake.)
Reading the .mk files in infrastructure/mk directory as well as bsd.port.mk(5) are very helpful. What I can suggest is looking for another port with a similar make/build structure and see how it was done and try to mimic it. --patrick
