Wednesday, March 28, 2018

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

Rafael Sadowski transcribed 1.4K bytes:
> 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.

Oh, that is indeed very old. But a good starting point.

Thanks

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