Re: compiling FreeBSD utilities for debian
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
:
: while we're talking about non-standard packages, I'll toss out another
: one:
:
: There are some utilities (ftp at the top of the list) for which I
: prefer the Free/Net-BSD equivalents. I've downloaded the source tree,
: but what else do I need to know to do a make on these? or more
: specifically, to make it into a debian package?
One fun thing I can think of is that most BSD code expects a parallel
make (the pmake package) which isn't much like GNU make (and that's
about all I know about it!)
I'll leave the packaging questions to an existing maintainer :)
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