Re: modifying makefiles

From: Nikolas Britton (freebsd_at_nbritton.org)
Date: 03/23/04

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To: Tadimeti Keshav <keshav_tadimeti@yahoo.co.uk>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org

    Tadimeti Keshav wrote:

    >hi
    >SInce I am behind a modem, I downloaded my fav ports
    >(source files) and copied them to
    >/usr/ports/distfiles.
    >
    Yea im behind a modem too at home (and a firewall) (in a VMware VM) but
    I can still download the src ppackages in freebsd..... whats this have
    to do with anything, why can't you download?

    >Some of the makefiles in the ports target a higer
    >version of the application than I have, and some the
    >lower version.
    >I made the changes in the makefile and adjusted the
    >MD5 values in the distinfo file, but make fails in the
    >patch section. Is there a way around this (i know it
    >is ugly) other than downloading from the net?
    >
    >
    I would just stop right there before you dig yourself into a deeper hole
    and fuge the system all up, have you read the handbook latey?:
    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html

    What about the FAQ too?:
    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html

    We also have a whole page just for newbies:
    http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html

    And we even have man pages too:
    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi

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