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Date:      Sun, 16 Nov 1997 05:34:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      logue <logue@logues.rhn.orst.edu>
To:        Kristian Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Way to _not_ build something in make world?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971116053257.296B-100000@logues.rhn.orst.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9711161226.AA21856@bragg>

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On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Kristian Kennaway wrote:

> > Is there a way to not build a particular package when make world'ing?  For
> > example, I replace sendmail with qmail, but every time I make world it
> > puts back sendmail again.
> 
> I'm told that make looks for files named "makefile" before it checks for 
> "Makefile" - so creating  a /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/makefile which 
> essentially does nothing should prevent this from being compiles & 
> installed

Yes, man make verifies this.  However to avoid make errors, put just one
line in the makefile: 

	all:

I've done this in /usr/src/contrib/bind, and /usr/src/usr.sbin/xntpd.
Hope it works, I'm going to find out :)

-STEVEl





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