Re: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports

[Niklas Hallqvist <niklas@petra.appli.se>]

> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 18:29:59 -0600
> From: Don Schmidt <yensid@imsa.edu>
> 
> >
> >Yes, but slowly; i already had that compiled, but not from ports.
> >It'll be in (tcl and tk 8.0 both) hopefully sometime this week.
> 
> I was able to compile tcl/tk cleanly from freebsd ports...

I've added them.  Now, many ports really do work cleanly from the from
the FreeBSD ports collection, however, in order to get them compile on
ECOFF (alpha) and ELF (mips,powerpc) systems tweaking might be needed.
Esp. ldconfig does not exist on the former, and has a different API on
the latter systems.  We don't even have shared libs at all on ECOFF
:-(  Before someone follows up... yes we want ELF on the alpha port,
it's just that noone came up with the spare time to do it.  I
encourage anyone with some spare time and want s to work on it to
contact me and I'll give you some hints on where to start.  The work
has been done in NetBSD so it's not like writing a whole new
subsystem.  However our ELF code is a little different so it's not
only to cut and paste.  It sure would be nice to have shared libs on
the alpha.

Niklas