From owner-freebsd-ports Wed May 26 9: 0: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E8E15299 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 09:00:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id JAA05766; Wed, 26 May 1999 09:00:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 09:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905261600.JAA05766@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Anders Nordby Subject: Re: ports/11893: new port: www/thttpd Reply-To: Anders Nordby Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/11893; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Anders Nordby To: Anton Berezin Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/11893: new port: www/thttpd Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 17:55:01 +0200 On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 04:40:10PM +0200, Anton Berezin wrote: > I think in the current form this port can be quite useless. Thttpd is > *quite* configurable, all configuration is done in config.h before the > build. For most ports the default configuration is acceptable, but > not in this case. Almost everybody will have a need to put his hands > into config.h. Almost everybody? Nah, but quite many perhaps. > I would suggest some mechanism for doing this in port (might be as > simple as entering an editor at post-configure time; though this will > make the port INTERACTIVE, and this is probably a bad thing). I think making the user aware of this should be sufficient enough, as many might just want thttpd for just the easyness and its modest use of resources. I added a post-fetch and post-build message. Apply this: --- Makefile.orig Wed May 26 17:24:48 1999 +++ Makefile Wed May 26 17:40:54 1999 @@ -40,6 +40,18 @@ post-install: message +post-fetch: config-message + +post-build: config-message + +config-message: + @${ECHO} "=====================================================================" + @${ECHO} "" + @${ECHO} "Be sure to take a look at the options in config.h before (re)building" + @${ECHO} "if you want to tweak the server." + @${ECHO} "" + @${ECHO} "=====================================================================" + message: @${ECHO} "=====================================================================" @${ECHO} "" -- Anders Nordby ^ anders@fix.no ^ http://anders.fix.no/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message