[geeks] C compiler won't create executables ..WTF?

[Martijn Pronk]

> On 23 May 2002, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
>> I'm not that familiar with ports, as I only use BSD for single purpose
>> servers, and thus don't have a lot of software to install.
> 
> I'm excited.  Brian sounds like he's a lot better as a project manager
> than I am, so there's a chance that this might get off the ground.  My
> /usr/src directory contains 162 packages, most of which had to be
> tweaked in some way to work under IRIX.  Being able to use a ports tree
> instead of experimenting with source-code edits and configure.in edits
> will make life -so- much easier.

There is already OpenPackages, (http://www.openpackages.org)
Which does pretty much what you want. And, it works on Linux, *BSD, Solaris,
IRIX and maybe AIX... (They mention that there are some issues with AIX...)

Martijn