From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed Dec 12 21:03:51 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD3301325D3C; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:03:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cmt@burggraben.net) Received: from smtp.burggraben.net (smtp.burggraben.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:140:50a2::3:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "ns.exwg.net", Issuer "Christoph Moench-Tegeder" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 01D1881263; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:03:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cmt@burggraben.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.burggraben.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C956002F7; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:03:49 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Scanned: by amavisd-new at exwg.net Received: from smtp.burggraben.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ns.burggraben.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id yk9qXyqAAjqz; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:03:38 +0100 (CET) Received: from squirrel.exwg.net (pD9F760CC.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.247.96.204]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "squirrel.exwg.net", Issuer "Christoph Moench-Tegeder" (verified OK)) by smtp.burggraben.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:03:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by squirrel.exwg.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 37CB312AC25; Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:03:37 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:03:37 +0100 From: Christoph Moench-Tegeder To: Ian Lepore Cc: bob prohaska , freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How much memory to compile www/chromium? Message-ID: <20181212210336.hlwwi3s7xy4qvtcl@squirrel.exwg.net> References: <20181212165313.GA84881@www.zefox.net> <20181212184149.ol44fon2unowu35q@squirrel.exwg.net> <20181212192115.GA85583@www.zefox.net> <20181212202504.4n3mhtx7grbeh6j7@squirrel.exwg.net> <1544646889.55242.8.camel@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1544646889.55242.8.camel@freebsd.org> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 01D1881263 X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.18 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.99)[-0.990,0]; RCVD_COUNT_FIVE(0.00)[5]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[burggraben.net]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: smtp.burggraben.net]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.91)[-0.913,0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[204.96.247.217.zen.spamhaus.org : 127.0.0.10]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:24940, ipnet:2a01:4f8::/29, country:DE]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; IP_SCORE(-1.17)[ipnet: 2a01:4f8::/29(-3.32), asn: 24940(-2.52), country: DE(-0.01)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:03:51 -0000 ## Ian Lepore (ian@freebsd.org): > That's a bit of a harsh tone to take with a user who has questions. Sorry, the day is getting long (and it doesn't sound that harsh in german, it definitively wasn't meant that harsh). > If > Bob was an aspiring ports developer, maybe a response like that would > make some sense. Asking a user who knows how to build ports to be > poking around in and understanding the guts of the ports build > framework is a bit much. Asking them to even know bsd.port.mk *exists* > is a bit much. Every ports developer started by compiling their own ports :) At least, that's how I started. And I had mentioned bsd.ports.mk in my previous mail. > A good response would be to point a user to the manpage that documents > all this stuff. Oh wait... there isn't one. There is ports(7), and again it redirects to bsd.ports.mk. I'm not even sure we could have all the ports make variables in a man page - the knobs of the ports tree depend on your checkout (portsnap, svn, whatever) and not on the base system or some installed package. Regards, Christoph -- Spare Space.