What ports actually compile

Devon H. O'Dell dodell at sitetronics.com
Thu Feb 17 06:48:08 PST 2005


On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 15:44 +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> On 17.02.2005, at 14:15, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> > Can you please make a list of the software packages that do not compile
> > in ports so that those of us who do use them for whatever reason can
> > work on making them actually work? That must mean that there are many
> > thousand software packages in ports that simply do not compile.
> 
> we could start a page on the wiki listing
> - (main) packages that need to work with dragonfly
> - the supported (upstream/dfports/pkgsrc) state
> - what needs to be done to get it supported upstream
> - who cares about getting it supported upstream
> 
> cheers
>    simon

I was simply wondering about this since I know that at some point David
attempted to build all of them. I don't know that I have the space to do
this, but I could certainly try. Does your machine do packages as well,
or just host the supfiles?

--Devon






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