Ports

Building a port – background info on make In previous diary notes (Changing the shell and DHCP (again)) I wrote that a symbolic link should be created when building a port.  This is not necessary.  Perhaps it was once necessary because that’s what is done in the Compiling ports from CDROM section of the FreeBSD […]

All the ports – how to save time if you have the disk space This article shows you how to install the port skeletons.  This will allow you to just cd into a directory and issue the make command.  You won’t have to fetch anything manually. 22 August 1998 Well, it’s not actually installing all