On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:56:59AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Consider adding to pkgsrc.

I would be over the moon if I could get the thing to compile in the first 
place.

And to be honest, I'don't have the savvy to be a maintanier, 'd rather get 
more eperience with all this first.

(you can tell im downloading yet more distfiles manually in windows while i 
type this)


> To see an example of how pkgsrc does it, go into a pkgsrc directory (for
> some similar software), and do something like:
> 
> make show-var VARNAME=CONFIGURE_ARGS
> 
> make show-var VARNAME=CONFIGURE_ENV

Thanks this is very useful, only, do you know of a python type package too? 
Maybe then I could steal the output of this and use it for this program

> > fluxspace.sourceforge.net
> 
> Look at how pkgsrc does it with
> .include "../../lang/python/application.mk"

Thanks, I checked this out but it didn't reveal the golden way to me :/

I've spent too long trying to get this thing to compile, now I'm really 
looking for a quick fix so I can use it, then read why/how later.

> You should just use pkgsrc to port the software; it makes it easier and
> others may benefit too!

Gee you can bet I'd do this as soon as it worked!

Thanks,
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