Re: Attempt to add Amaya to the FreeBSD ports system

Amaya user wrote:
[...]
> 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.

The first problem is to get Amaya to build and run cleanly.
I tackled the exact same project some time ago; I did some small steps, 
but haven't been working on it lately due to lack of time.

> 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?

This should not be a problem.


Kind regards,
Philipp