Thank you everyone for the kind advice. I think I have a correct understanding of packges/ports and shall double check if what I need isn't already there.
I'm meant to be working right now, ahem, so I'll investigate further when I get home and try to work this out myself. Is this the correct mailing list to ask questions should I have problems linking required libraries? On 17 April 2012 11:33, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:30:18PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: >> If you really want to look at things, compiling the port is very easy, though >> it will usually take longer (sometimes much longer for monsters like >> libreoffice). It's as stupid as cd /usr/ports/lang/swi-prolog && make install >> >> Most software compiles just fine on OpenBSD. It's just that if you want >> to do it by hand, you have to hunt for the dependencies, and give the right >> environment/options to configure. > > Another way to look at things is that the ports system is mostly "Automated" > hand builds. > > It was designed to be as transparent as possible. Apart from the paraphernalia > needed to version packages, handle lists of files, and track dependencies, > it's just fetch/extract/patch/configure/build/install (obvious > oversimplification), but it's not something arcane and impossible > to understand.
