From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 16 05:35:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA21419 for current-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 05:35:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from logues.rhn.orst.edu (logues.RHN.ORST.EDU [128.193.137.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA21411 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 05:35:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from logue@logues.rhn.orst.edu) Received: from localhost (logue@localhost) by logues.rhn.orst.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA00298; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 05:34:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from logue@logues.rhn.orst.edu) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 05:34:57 -0800 (PST) From: logue To: Kristian Kennaway cc: Evan Champion , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Way to _not_ build something in make world? In-Reply-To: <9711161226.AA21856@bragg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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