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From: Bora <Dejan.Djukic@circ.de.epfl.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: So how do I compile a port??????
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:48:15 +0100
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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I have happily installed FreeBSD-2.1.0 from the ftp archive
nic.funet.fi. I installed base and sys sources.
So far, everything seems to be fine: recompiled
kernel, nfs, X11 ...
BUT:
I want to install some software that is ported to FreeBSD.
The handbook says that I should start from the /usr/ports...
directory. BUT I HAVE NOT THIS DIRECTORY!
What to do now?
To build the /usr/ports tree myself?
What files to put there?
Fetch the /usr/ports tree?
Where?
How?
Once I have it, what then?
Answers are (of course) welcomed.
Bora