From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 30 1:33:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE9937B422 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 01:33:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4U8VOx92357; Wed, 30 May 2001 09:31:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:31:24 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Mike Meyer Cc: Dima Dorfman , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/27709: [PATCH] WITHOUT_X is used by many ports, but not documented. Message-ID: <20010530093124.A92304@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <15124.28553.521171.74698@guru.mired.org> <20010530043326.CC78C3E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <15124.32232.828130.553276@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="liOOAslEiF7prFVr" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15124.32232.828130.553276@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:58:16PM -0500 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:58:16PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > NO_X is already 100% supported and documented in the make.conf man > page. It's possible that some port maintainers are abusing it to do > what WITHOUT_X does because WITHOUT_X isn't documented. Not only possible, it happened. When I patched the Ghostscript port to support building without X (so that people using it as part of the docproj build didn't need to install X), NO_X was the only documented variable. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjsUr9sACgkQk6gHZCw343UzhwCdGQBFcHvLWM0zg9WaTwgK184L N8oAn15/zWOe+IsQEpNDOuAmEYN1jDoL =z3h1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message