From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 19 21:38:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA20576 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 21:38:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA20571 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 21:38:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djv@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from djv@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA04733; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:36:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from djv) From: CyberPeasant Message-Id: <199807200436.AAA04733@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: KDE-1.0 In-Reply-To: <19980720000711.A20115@astro.psu.edu> from Matthew Hunt at "Jul 20, 98 00:07:11 am" To: mph@pobox.com (Matthew Hunt) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:36:50 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: djv@bedford.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 . > > (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 -- "Today, machines sit on our desks and spend the overwhelming majority of their cycles doing nothing more important than blinking a cursor." --William Dickens http://www.feedmag.com/html/feedline/98.07dickens/98.07dickens_master.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message