> On 28 Oct, 2017, at 22:18, blubee blubeeme wrote:
>
> @MarkMillard
>
> Thank you for explaining that. Like you said there's lots of stuff that's
> just not documented. How should I know that I should check the man page for
> Makefile? I appreciate the help with that at least I'll be better inf
@MarkMillard
Thank you for explaining that. Like you said there's lots of stuff that's
just not documented. How should I know that I should check the man page for
Makefile? I appreciate the help with that at least I'll be better informed
in the future.
Things like that should be in the porter han
On Sat, 28 Oct 2017, Mark Millard wrote:
${NAME:tl} is Makefile notation even in Makefiles having nothing to do
with ports (or potentially even FreeBSD). There probably is lots of
involved Makefile notation not separately documented in
makefile-distfiles.html or other parts of porters-handbook
blubee blubeeme gurenchan at gmail.com wrote on
Sat Oct 28 05:33:38 UTC 2017:
> what does [:tl] even mean here? There's nothing about it on the whole page:
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.html
Also in a later message:
> thanks for that tip but how would
Hi!
> thanks for that tip but how would I know to look at man [1 make] for
> something like that?
The BSD man pages in general are very detailed. So if a tool
has an issue, looking at the man page of the tool might help.
Yes, I'm still surprised about all the features bsd make has, but
it's a re
thanks for that tip but how would I know to look at man [1 make] for
something like that?
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra
wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 07:33:36 +0200,
> blubee blubeeme wrote:
> >
> > I literally copy the entire url and add it to master_sites and it doesn't
>
On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 07:33:36 +0200,
blubee blubeeme wrote:
>
> I literally copy the entire url and add it to master_sites and it doesn't
> work!
>
> what does [:tl] even mean here? There's nothing about it on the whole page:
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfi
I literally copy the entire url and add it to master_sites and it doesn't
work!
what does [:tl] even mean here? There's nothing about it on the whole page:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.html
SF ${PORTNAME:tl}/${PORTNAME:tl}/${PORTVERSION}
MASTER_SITES= S
These SF mater_sites give me a real tough time trying to figure it out and
try to find github mirrors whenever possible but I need to figure this out.
I'm trying to download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/spacenav/
PORTNAME= freespacenav
PORTVERSION= 0.2.3
MASTER_SITES= SF/spacenav
DISTNAME=
