Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Re: first questions wit regards to porting and adding BSD support

On Wed Mar 28, 2018 at 11:12:29AM +0000, Nils Gillmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm interested in providing our software (GNUnet) and its dependency chain
> through ports. As I like to work with Operating Systems and adjust my work
> to their expectations:
>
> - Do you prefer to build from ./bootstrap on (which sometimes might
> require autotools), or do you have any advice for me how OpenBSD likes
> to build packages?
> For example, you seem to build curl just as-is, but maybe there is
> a more conveniet bsd-prefered way I could integrate into gnurl?
> Node has an "BSDmakefile". So what I'm looking here for is advice
> or further reading material and opions from people working longer
> with ports for a newcomer to ports and building for OpenBSD.
>
> - Your gnutls package in ports states:
>
> # OpenBSD's unbound does not provide libdane
> CONFIGURE_ARGS += --disable-libdane
>
> Here the problem is that we will optionally (in other words: we
> recommend) require a gnutls build with DANE functionality.
>
> From past conversations in our developer community I know that
> GNUnet is not fully functional on OpenBSD. I don't recall the
> full list of problems, but could I get advice and feedback here
> once I run into these problems?
>
> Thanks
>

There is a *really* old WIP port on openbsd-wip:
https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/tree/master/net/gnunet

Perhaps a good startpoint.

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