[Bf-committers] RE: [Bf-docboard] Blender 2.27 on NetBSD

[Bart Veldhuizen]

Hi Jan,

Excellent! I'll forward this message to the committers group - they do
all the software development stuff. Most of the people in this group
focus on user documentation. Since I can't judge the patches you sent
us, I suggest that we wait until we hear from the committers before we
add your part to the documentation, ok?

Committer dudes - does this information sound useful to you? Can we add
Jan's documentation to the current manual, or should we wait until a new
release?

Cheers,

Bart

-----Original Message-----
From: bf-docboard-admin@blender.org
[mailto:bf-docboard-admin@blender.org] On Behalf Of Jan Schaumann
Sent: woensdag 28 mei 2003 19:00
To: bf-docboard@blender.org
Subject: [Bf-docboard] Blender 2.27 on NetBSD


Hello,

I have just imported Blender 2.27 into NetBSD's Packages Collection[1].
This may be of interest to you for several reasons.  On the one hand, it
shows that blender compiles and installs without a problem under NetBSD,
thus offering a large number of platforms.  On the other hand, by using
the Packages Collection (or pkgsrc), users on other platforms also have
a terribly easy way of compiling and installing the software, as pkgsrc
can be used on a variety of platforms.

Attached please find the two patches that I had to apply to make the
sources compile under NetBSD -- actually, only one is required, the
other one is a patch to the configure script.

I've created and uploaded binary packages[2] of Blender 2.27 -- it would
be nice if you could add links from your website.

As for the HTML documentation, you might want to consider adding a
paragraph for the "Installing Blender" section:


,----[ Downloading and installing the binary distribution ]
| NetBSD
|
| Quick Install
|
| Determine the correct URL for your platform (see [2]).  Then, as root,

| issue the command 'pkg_add <URL>'.
|
| In-depth Instructions
|
| The NetBSD Project provides binary packages for a large number of 
| platforms.  You will need to determine the correct location for your 
| platform.  For example, if you are using NetBSD 1.6 on an i386 PC, the

| correct binary package would be 
| ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.6/i386/graphics/blender-2.2
| 7.tgz
|
| You may choose to download that file by hand and then issue the 
| command 'pkg_add blender-2.27.tgz' or simply use 'pkg_add <URL>'.  
| Note that if you do not have all the dependencies installed, the 
| latter is the better option as that way the required packages are 
| installed at the same time.
|
| Please see [3] for details.
|
| Should there be no binary package for your platform, please follow the

| easy instructions to build blender from source.
|
`----


,----[ Building Blender from the sources ]
| NetBSD (and other platforms using pkgsrc)
|
| Quick Install
|
| cd /usr/pkgsrc/graphics/blender
| make install
|
| In-depth Instructions
|
| NetBSD's Packages Collection provides for easy installation from 
| source on a multitude of platforms (NetBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, 
| Darwin, Irix).  You should be able to compile and install Blender 
| easily by simply changing into the directory 
| /usr/pkgsrc/graphics/blender and issuing the command 'make install'.  
| This will automatically download the sources, verify their integrity, 
| download and install all necessary dependencies and build and install 
| Blender.  Please see [1] for details.
|
| Note that there are a few flags you can set to compile in support for 
| additional packages.  Search /usr/pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.defaults.mk for 
| "BLENDER" variables and set them according to your preference in 
| /etc/mk.conf
|
| If you experience problems building the package, please use send-pr(1)

| on your NetBSD system or submit a proble report via [4].
|
`----

-Jan

[1] http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html
    http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/pkgsrc/

[2] Binary package for NetBSD/i386:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.6.1/i386/graphics/blender-2.2
7.tgz
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.6/i386/graphics/blender-2.27.
tgz

    Binary package for NetBSD/macppc:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.6.1/macppc/graphics/blender-2
.27.tgz
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.6/macppc/graphics/blender-2.2
7.tgz

    Binary package for Linux/i386 using pkgsrc:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jschauma/pkgsrc/Linux/i386/graphics
/blender-2.27.tgz

[3] http://man.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/man-cgi?pkg_add+1+NetBSD-current

[4] http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd

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