My First Port

[Wesley Shields]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:53:45PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>  --On July 4, 2007 4:49:33 PM +0200 Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 09:28:45AM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:53:46PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> >> > .... good comments deleted
> >>
> >> Thanks, Shaun and Paul.  I appreciate the help.  Changes made,
> >> portlint ran, port re-tested, PR submitted.
> >>
> >> Somebody stop me before I port again!  :-)
> >
> > No, Sir!
> >
> > Porting is fun, so we won't stop you from having fun.
> > And if you're stuck with a more complicated port, just ask
> > for help. There are a lot of helpful maintainers and committers
> > around.  :)
> >
>  Speaking of difficult ports.....
> 
>  I'm working on the upgrade to security/bro.  It's a royal PITA.  The author 
>  hardcodes destinations for everything so that the software doesn't follow 
>  FreeBSD conventions at all, *and* there's no "master" setting that you can 
>  alter in configure or the top level Makefile.in file.  So, I've had to edit 
>  almost every Makefile.in in the distro to get the darn thing to behave.  
>  Even the docs don't want to install where they should!
> 
>  Here's my FILESDIR:
> 
>  ls files/
>  patch-Makefile.in patch-policy-Makefile.in
>  patch-aux-scripts-Makefile.in patch-policy-sigs-Makefile.in
>  patch-configure patch-scripts-Makefile.in
>  patch-doc-quick-start-Makefile.in patch-scripts-s2b-bro-include-Makefile.in
>  patch-doc-ref-manual-Makefile.in 
>  patch-scripts-s2b-example-bro-files--Makefile.in
>  patch-doc-user-manual-Makefile.in patch-src-Makefile.in
> 
>  {{{sigh}}}
> 
>  I have one last problem.  This software installs another piece of software 
>  named "broccoli" (don't ask), and for some reason broccoli puts it's lib 
>  files in PREFIX/share.  I can't seem to find why it's doing that.  I grepped 
>  for libdir and it always appears as EPREFIX/lib, which is correct. If anyone 
>  wants to take a look at this thing and figure it out, I would be grateful.  
>  It's the one last piece I need to get this thing working as expected.
> 
>  You can download the source here: <ftp://bro-ids.org/bro-1.1d-stable.tar.gz>

Paul,

As I mentioned before, I took a stab at this port a while ago and came
to the same conclusions.  I'll gladly take a look at where you are and
see if I can help you out at all.  Can you send a patch of where you
currently are so I can take a look?

-- WXS