Problems about making a new port

[Jason E. Hale]

On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 10:10:48 HU Dong wrote:

> As for "/usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt", it's a cert file installed 
> by security/ca_root_nss. I can't figure out how to determine its 
> location automatically, but I think ${PREFIX} is not proper either, so I
> replace /usr/local with ${LOCALBASE}.
> 
I've looked over this port a lot closer and it doesn't seem like this 
replacement is really necessary.  The user can define the location of the cert 
in ~/.xombrero.conf with the ssl_ca_file variable.

> Now it seems that the only problem left is to create a wrapper script for
> the binary. I don't know where to find tutorials. Is there a google example 
> that I can refer to? Roughly, I need to know where to place the original 
> binary, how to name the wrapper, whether there's anything additional to do 
> except copying files and executing the original binary, etc.
> 
I'm not sure this is the right thing now since I looked at that script and it 
requires www/get_flash_videos and multimedia/mplayer.  You could make them 
optional dependencies, but I wouldn't install the script to the users home 
directory unless get_flash_videos and mplayer are installed.  It might be 
better to leave it up to the user since they will have to manually install 
.xombrero.conf anyways.  Maybe a pkg-message would be more appropriate.

I was bored and had some free time, so I fixed up the port and put it in my 
Redports SVN repo:
https://redports.org/browser/bsdkaffee/www/xombrero
Build logs here:
https://redports.org/buildarchive/20120731145106-5752/
Clang build failed do to devel/gobject-introspection

Feel free to use any of the changes I made.  Many of the changes were things I 
said in my previous mail.

I did away with the do-build target and left that up to bsd.port.mk by 
defining MAKE_ARGS and BUILD_WRKSRC.  This will make it easier in the future 
if you want to make the port use either webkit-gtk2 or webkit-gtk3 (when it 
get in the ports tree).  Plus we need to pass PTHREAD_CFLAGS and PTHREAD_LIBS 
to make.

- Fixed some hardcoded paths and the use of -pthread directly in the Makefile.  
- Added -D_GCRYPT_IN_LIBGCRYPT=1 to the Makefile to squash the warnings.
- Moved one of the reinplaces to a proper patch.  Reinplaces are more for 
fixing paths and multiple instances of things.

Regards,
Jason E. Hale