Re: How do I get into porting?

To: hiranwatson@gmail.com
Cc: Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>, "Mailing List - Debian GNU/*BSD" <debian-bsd@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: How do I get into porting?
From: Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:19:23 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] AANLkTimzj9pQRJYEG-u5mvom6F7Q15qVAomV+eadsNFp@mail.gmail.com>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 60255830-1298659939-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-638635806-@bda819.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>
References: <[🔎] 60255830-1298659939-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-638635806-@bda819.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>

2011/2/25 David Hiran Watson <hiranwatson@gmail.com>:
> Is it better to port vbox from Debian GNU/Linux or build the source code?

I recommend that you build it from Debian source
(apt-get source virtualbox-ose).

virtualbox is a difficult target though, if you're new to porting it
might be better to start with simpler ones.

-- 
Robert Millan

Reply to:

References:
- Re: How do I get into porting?
  - From: "David Hiran Watson" <hiranwatson@gmail.com>

Prev by Date: Re: How do I get into porting?
Next by Date: kfreebsd-amd64 Java issues (FTBFS of libjna-java on fasch.d.o)
Previous by thread: Re: How do I get into porting?
Next by thread: kfreebsd-amd64 Java issues (FTBFS of libjna-java on fasch.d.o)
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread