Attempt to add Amaya to the FreeBSD ports system

Greetings,
 I'm new to the list. My reason for joining is that I would
like to use Amaya on FreeBSD. I have been using BSD as my
"daily driver" for some 30 years. While I am also familiar with,
and use other Operating Systems. My home is on BSD. That said; I
installed a copy of Fedora on a separate partition of one of my BSD
installs to build, and use Amaya. The process went as expected, and
I really enjoyed Amaya. Now, I would like to build Amaya, and use
it on BSD, where I will get the most use out of it. Before
embarking on this mission, I have a couple of questions that I
hope will ensure my mission goes smoothly.
Since I ultimately hope to add Amaya to the BSD posts system, I
have some questions that will apply to both installing for my
own use, as well as building an environment that will make
it possible for a "generic" BSD make(1) && install.
I notice that the CVS and source have a notion of installing
Amaya support libs from the Amaya source tree. BSD already
has the libs distributed with the Amaya source. Is there any reason/
why I can't get Amaya source that doesn't depend on the libs
/within/ the Amaya source? The versions that already exist on
reasonably recent versions of BSD, are new enough to meet
(or exceed) the dependency requirements of Amaya.
Secondly, the build process within the BSD ports tree has a notion
of ${PREFIX}, which is a macro that generally expands to
/usr/local
Does the same hold true for Amaya?

Thank you for all your time and consideration.

Sincerely,
 Chris

Received on Friday, 7 January 2011 08:03:25 UTC