Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:44:53 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Chris H." <chris#@1command.com> Subject: Re: make KNOBS Message-ID: <20080226134453.GA32927@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0802260433y63f887e8y56dea11f36270b2e@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080225215522.r3jb5v548o0scks8@webmail.1command.com> <20080226070516.GB32690@team.vega.ru> <20080225233523.acl5s1lo8wgsw4wg@webmail.1command.com> <20080226080349.GA20881@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <790a9fff0802260433y63f887e8y56dea11f36270b2e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:33:37AM -0600, Scot Hetzel wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:03 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Additionally, the WITH/WITHOUT variables seen in the Makefile are not
> > always what they seem. For ports that use OPTIONS, you cannot define
> > these on the command-line (e.g. make WITHOUT_FRUIT=yes); you absolutely
> > MUST do 'make config' and then toggle them there. (This is one piece of
> > the OPTIONS framework which I have always disliked, because some of us
> > use /etc/make.conf to define WITH/WITHOUT variables, and prefer to do
> > "cd /usr/ports/whatever && make clean && make && make install" and not
> > have something interactive pop up. That's for another discussion
> > though...)
> >
> You should be able to do:
>
> cd /usr/ports/whatever && make clean && make -DBATCH && make -DBATCH install
>
> Check the port to see if it disables parts of its build/install
> process when BATCH is defined.
I thought using BATCH had some substantial risks associated with it? I
wish I could remember where I read or heard that...
> Another way would be to define _OPTIONS_OK=yes in /etc/make.conf, but
> this is an internal variable to bsd.ports.mk.
What are the risks involved with using this?
> Also defining WITH/WITHOUT variables in /etc/make.conf and/or
> ${PREFIX}/etc/ports.conf (sysutils/portconf) should work with ports
> that use the OPTIONS framework.
In the case of the lesser, it doesn't. In the case of the latter, I
don't use portconf, so I don't have an answer to that one.
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