Re: Building newer package

["Ian D. Leroux" <idleroux%fastmail.fm@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016, at 10:57, Scott Burns wrote:
> If I see there is a newer package on platform X but not available as a
> binary package for platform Y yet is there a document that walks me
> through building the newer version for another platform?

The shortest answer is that you just build the package as usual on a
machine of platform Y

% cd /usr/pkgsrc # or wherever your pkgsrc tree is
% cvs update -dPA # updates your pkgsrc tree to the latest HEAD
% cd /usr/pkgsrc/category/package
% make package

That will generate a binary package under /usr/pkgsrc/packages/All.

The long and detailed answer is https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/,
which walks the reader through most common pkgsrc-related tasks.

I suspect, however, that neither of those answers is what you were
looking for. Could you give a little more detail about what you're
trying to do or which step is puzzling your? That might help us
formulate helpful answers.

-- IDL