Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:00:55 +0000 From: Ashley Moran <ashley.moran@codeweavers.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Questions about make arguments for ports Message-ID: <200511301300.55571.ashley.moran@codeweavers.net>
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Hello,
When upgrading a machine from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0 I came across the problem of
how to re-compile all the ports to use FreeBSD 6 libraries so I can ditch the
compat5x port.
man portupgrade I should # portupgrade -aRf to force a re-compile but that
then brought up the issue of how to configure each build. I found the
section in pkgtools.conf that lets you specify arguments to pass to make but
how do I deal with ports that have a config make target?
I mean I could add MAKE_ARGS = { 'java/jdk115' => 'WITHOUT_WEB=1' } to
pkgtools.conf, but is there a way to specify these arguments in this file, or
is there no choice but to configure manually first time?
The reason I ask is because I would like to schedule software updates to run
nightly but I don't want them to either rebuild with the wrong options or
find out it hung on a config screen.
Also I have another question that I can't suss out from either the man pages
or the Mk files: what happens to the configs if you use portupgrade -P?
Seeing as there is only package file per port I assume it gets compiled with
a default set of options and you lost any config options.
I am thinking that perhaps the best strategy is to decide which software I can
use from packages and which I need to compile, configure pkgtools.conf to
download the source or binary versions as appropriate, set MAKE_ARGS for
ports with no config options and pre-configure the rest. The more I look the
more amazed I am at the flexibility of the ports system but the more I wish
it was completely documented!!!
Ashley
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