Posts tagged "Pkgsrc"

Packaging for 2021q2
2021-02-26
I spent a good deal of the past couple weeks working on actually getting init up and running, preparing kernel configurations for multiple architectures, and learning about Das U-Boot in order to put up bootable images. Taking a little break from that the last few days, I am now once again working at building a set of packages using pkgsrc....
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Imported source, pkgsrc on Arm woes, and make includes
2020-08-01
I think we'll start this post discussing some of the differences and misconceptions of same between BSD make and GNU make. In the case of BSD make we're primarily referring to NetBSD make, which is a greatly improved version of the historical Unix make...
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Patching pkgsrc, building rust and Arm headaches
2020-07-20
Having been working with pkgsrc for a couple weeks now there's a bit of a flow developing, and quite a bit of progress, with a big caveat. The issues I'm running into are that there are quite a few more build failures for Arm than there are for x86_64....
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More Pkgsrc
2020-07-14
While attempting to build the Thunar file manager (via pkgsrc) I encountered a couple of other errors when it pulled in Samba4 as a dependency. Samba4 has switched from using GNU autotools to it's own internal version of waf, a Python based tool for configuring software....
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Building packages using pkgsrc
2020-07-13
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