Re: pkgsrc and miniroot

[Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost>]

On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> >   SPECIAL gqview         srcdir  /usr/pkgsrc/graphics/gqview
>
> This doesn't work because crunchgen(1) expects BSD makefile (bsd.prog.mk,
> bsd.lib.mk, etc.).  You have to either a) write BSD makefiles for gqview &
> all its dependencies, or b) teach pkgsrc to build crunch-ready objects.

b) will require getting pkgsrc ready for cross compiling, which is 
considered Hard.

How about c) to extract the files from a binary package, which was 
previously built? At least this would decouple building of binary packages 
(probably on the target platform) and extracting them onto the miniroot.


 - Hubert