On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Dave wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>
> pre-build:
>         @echo "building musixflx..."
>         @echo "SHELL=/bin/sh" > ${WRKSRC}/Makefile
>         @echo "all:" >> ${WRKSRC}/Makefile
>         @echo " ${CC} -o musixflx systems/c-source/musixflx.c" >> \
> 		${WRKSRC}/Makefile
>
> That seems to give a good build, but seems like a sloppy approach.

To create a file from scratch, you could either put it in
${FILESDIR}=${.CURDIR}/files and copy it in, or else compose a patch
against "/dev/null".

> > > 2)  According to what the FreeBSD install, I should install
> > > ${WRKSRC}/tex/musixtex.fmt to ${PREFIX}/share/texmf/web2c.  This file
> > > "musixtex.fmt" is missing from the tarball.  According to
> > > ${WRKSRC}/systems/dos/makefmt.bat, one can create this file with the
> > > DOS command "tex386 -i -mt25000 &ec-plain musixtex.ins %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6
> > > %7 %8 %9".  What would be the function of this file and how can I recreate
> > > it under NetBSD?  Do I even need to bother?
> >
> > See the teTeX documentation for a description of "format" memory
> > dumps. [I won't try to explain it to you, since I don't understand it
> > all myself. ;-)] You create then with "initex", but "initex"  doesn't
> > seem to take the "-mt25000" argument, so go figure. Maybe check the
> > CTAN archives, or probably
> >
> > 	initex '&ec-plain' musixtex.ins
> >
> > would get you something useful.
>
> $ initex '&ec-plain' musixtex.ins
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (INITEX)
> Sorry, I can't find the format `ec-plain.fmt'; will try `initex.fmt'.
> I can't find the format file `initex.fmt'!

You got me. What does FreeBSD do? Does it work without that?

Frederick