Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:36:50 -0400 (EDT) From: CyberPeasant <djv@lucy.bedford.net> To: mph@pobox.com (Matthew Hunt) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE-1.0 Message-ID: <199807200436.AAA04733@lucy.bedford.net> In-Reply-To: <19980720000711.A20115@astro.psu.edu> from Matthew Hunt at "Jul 20, 98 00:07:11 am"
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Matthew Hunt wrote
> On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 11:14:06PM -0400, CyberPeasant wrote:
>
> > Maybe ask of -ports what the "true and righteous" way of specifying
> > the "other" make for a subset of a port is. AFAIK, the toplevel "port"
> > Makefile has to be in BSD syntax, since it includes <bsd.port.mk>.
> > (My guess is that it involves twiddling the MAKE environment variable).
>
> The correct way is to add
>
> USE_GMAKE=yes
>
> to the port's Makefile.
Ah, so. Thanks!
> The various variables of interest are documented at the top of
> /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk.
>
> > Curious: the only port in 2.2.6-R that requires gmake to build is
> > pgp... and it doesn't use it! (It doesn't invoke gmake, just requires
> > it. Looks like an error.)
>
> Since you didn't know about USE_GMAKE, I have to assume that you are
> using a wrong technique to determine which ports need gmake.
That's right. It was find /usr/ports -name Makefile | xargs grep BUILD_DEPENDS
| grep make
> Admittedly, this is post-2.2.6, but:
>
> flarn:~/FreeBSD/ports$ grep USE_GMAKE */*/Makefile | wc -l
> 156
>
> 156 is considerably larger than 1. :-)
:)
> I do not know enough about PGP's build process to say offhand whether
> the BUILD_DEPENDS is an error. Note that USE_GMAKE is an automatic
> dependency on gmake, just like USE_PERL5 requires, well, Perl 5.
I have gmake installed. I temporarily mv'd gmake to GNUMake or something
weird like that. Both US and non-US versions of pgp built successfully.
I should have known better -- I don't use pgp, and somehow gmake had
been installed. I assumed I had done it as a routine thing.
Dave
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