Subject: safest way to install non-pkgsrc software?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Tom Nakamura <imifumei@imap.cc>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/05/2005 12:39:45
Hi
Although I find pkgsrc contains 95% of the software I need, I'm left
without the other 5%. For example, I needed the ruby-sdl package the
other day and apparently its not in pkgsrc. In such a situtation, is
there an easier way to install the software besides creating my own
entry in the pkgsrc tree? (I want to avoid it for the time being b/c it
seems overly complex judging from the docs..) Is it safe to do a simple
"./configure --prefix=/usr/pkg; make; make install"? "port2pkg" doesn't
seem to work too well either.
Tom Nakamura