Interested in making a new port, or upgrading existing ports? Great!
What follows are some guidelines for creating a new port for FreeBSD. To upgrade an existing port, read this, then read Chapter 10, Upgrading a Port.
When this document is not sufficiently detailed,
refer to /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, which is
included by all port Makefiles. Even those
not hacking Makefiles daily can gain much
knowledge from it. Additionally, specific questions can be sent to the
FreeBSD ports mailing list.
Only a fraction of the variables
(VAR/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk; the others
probably ought to be. Note that this file uses a non-standard
tab setting: Emacs and
Vim will recognize the setting on
loading the file. Both vi(1) and ex(1) can be set to
use the correct value by typing
:set tabstop=4 once the file has been
loaded.
Looking for something easy to start with? Take a look at the list of requested ports and see if you can work on one (or more).
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