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Chapter 3 Quick Porting
- Table of Contents
- 3.1 Writing the Makefile
- 3.2 Writing the description files
- 3.3 Creating the checksum file
- 3.4 Testing the port
- 3.5 Checking your port with portlint
- 3.6 Submitting the port
This section tells you how to do a quick port. In many cases, it is not sufficient, so you will have to read further on into the document.
First, get the original tarball and put it into DISTDIR, which defaults to /usr/ports/distfiles.
Note: The following assumes that the software compiled out-of-the-box, i.e., there was absolutely no change required for the port to work on your FreeBSD box. If you needed to change something, you will have to refer to the next section too.
3.1 Writing the Makefile
The minimal Makefile would look something like this:
# New ports collection makefile for: oneko # Date created: 5 December 1994 # Whom: asami # # $FreeBSD$ # PORTNAME= oneko PORTVERSION= 1.1b CATEGORIES= games MASTER_SITES= ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/archives/X11R5/contrib/ MAINTAINER= asami@FreeBSD.org COMMENT= A cat chasing a mouse all over the screen MAN1= oneko.1 MANCOMPRESSED= yes USE_IMAKE= yes .include <bsd.port.mk>
See if you can figure it out. Do not worry about the contents of the $FreeBSD$ line, it will be filled in automatically by CVS when the port is imported to our main ports tree. You can find a more detailed example in the sample Makefile section.
For questions about this documentation, e-mail <doc@FreeBSD.org>.
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