From owner-freebsd-ports Mon May 28 5: 4:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5635637B422 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 05:04:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@orbitel.bg) Received: (qmail 6381 invoked by uid 1000); 28 May 2001 12:03:35 -0000 Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 15:03:35 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Espen Skoglund Cc: Willem van Engen , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User-selectable fetch/build/install Message-ID: <20010528150335.G588@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Espen Skoglund , Willem van Engen , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3B1233D3.6E00AA2A@stack.nl> <15122.14970.856827.714292@i30nb2.ira.uka.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15122.14970.856827.714292@i30nb2.ira.uka.de>; from esk@ira.uka.de on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:46:02PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:46:02PM +0200, Espen Skoglund wrote: > [Willem van Engen] > > I'm making a port of the sword project (www.crosswire.org). It's a > > framework for bible-programs and consists of a library and many > > modules. I would like the user to select the desired modules, and > > then only the selected modules will be downloaded and installed. > > Other ports (e.g. xmms) made several ports for extra modules > > (xmms-crossfade, xmms-liveice, ...). But since sword has many > > modules (>90), I wouldn't consider it practical. How should I > > implement this? I could make a subdir containing other ports for all > > the modules, or make a shellscript doing all this and create a port > > for that, or create a complex Makefile in the port, ... Except for > > the first idea, the pkg-plist would be a problem; it would change > > when the user selects something else. Could anyone shine some light > > on this? > > I can see two obvious solutions here: > > 1. Make bundles of the modules and create packages for these bundles > (e.g., ports/editors/xemacs-prog-packages). > > 2. Use a shell script for having the user selecting modules. The > script generates a temporary plist which is used during the > install process (e.g., ports/textproc/ispell, sans the shell > script). > > Please note that if the latter solution is used you should probably > also provide a set of ``standard'' modules to be included for > non-interactive builds. Another example for build-time configuration can be seen in www/mod_php4: look at the Makefile and the scripts/configure script. G'luck, Peter -- Do you think anybody has ever had *precisely this thought* before? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message