[jwhat]

Hi Raion,

thanks very much for going to trouble.

I had looked up pdksh, as Simon (who helped with getting bmake going) is ex-maintainer of pdksh, so good to see that MirBSD Korn Shell has picked up where pdksh dropped off.

I have solved the "back-quote" tar problem.

Once I run a little Make test to understand the behaviour of bmake/shell interaction & put in some debug diagnostics, it became apparent that in changing from default "tar" to "/usr/freeware/bin/tar" my clumsy finger typing (was very late at night is my excuse) had put a back-quote in the parameter definition (oooopppps!!!).

So I have raised next issue via gitlab which is that Ports does not seem to be automatically choosing the extract method (tar/unzip/xz ... etc) based on the file suffix.

This could be easy to fix by simply over riding the extract method, but this seems pretty primitive.

Anyhow I am now starting to get quite a good feel for how the Ports stuff works...

Cheers from Oz,


jwhat/John.