Solved Porting new software

[W.hâ/t]

I beleive you have to create the ports Makefile first. There are options you can set that helps the building process.

I've actually read a bit of the Porter's Handbook.
It says to compile the program first. Is it bad practice to do the Makefile and go from there?

 

[SirDice]

Is it bad practice to do the Makefile and go from there?

No, that's what I typically do. Same with Puppet and Ansible. I see many people installing software and configuring it first, then try to fit that in a puppet or ansible script. That's the wrong way around in my opinion, I start with a puppet or ansible script and tweak that until it does exactly what needs to be done. Same with creating a new port, I start with a basic Makefile and work on that until it does what it's supposed to do.