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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:11:56 +0200
From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
To: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Who should honor WITHOUT_X11?
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:36:56 -0700
"Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> wrote:

> Trying to build dbus recently on my system without X11 installed, I
> ran into a few compile issues because I had put WITHOUT_X11=yes into
> src.conf. However, I put WITHOUT_X11=yes into make.conf and was able
> to compile dbus properly (in the end).
> 
> So, my questions are:
> 1. Should make.conf be responsible for the WITHOUT_X11 or should
> another file be responsible for it?
> 2. Is it already documented in a manpage somewhere? It isn't
> documented in `man make.conf'.
> 

It's documented in src.conf(5) that it only applies to the FreeBSD
source tree, which does not include the ports tree.  Only make.conf
is globally applicable.

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Gary Jennejohn