Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 13:39:35 -0800 From: Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: win32-codecs question ... Message-ID: <200701041339.36221.fcash@ocis.net> In-Reply-To: <200701041327.52134.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> References: <438465.16988.qm@web32710.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <7c58fcfc0701040040w4c76096ej9edd28a7ef193681@mail.gmail.com> <200701041327.52134.dsyphers@u.washington.edu>
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On Thursday 04 January 2007 01:27 pm, David Syphers wrote: > On Thursday 04 January 2007 00:40, Jose Alonso Cardenas Marquez wrote: > > why do you not use "make config" in multimedia/win32-codecs and you > > not select the QUICKTIME option? > Largely because I'd never heard of 'make config'. Thanks for > enlightening me. But... configurations like that are supposed to pop up > under a normal 'make', aren't they? If a port supports the OPTION framework, then the first time you run make it will pop up the blue screen where you select the options you want. These are saved in a text file called /var/db/ports/<portname>/options. You can view saved options using "make showconfig". You can delete the saved options using "make rmconfig". And you can bring up the options screen at anytime using "make config". This is all nicely documented in the ports(7) man page. :) And there were a bunch of head's ups on the -ports mailing list back when this first hit the ports tree. I believe there's also a blurb about this in the handbook. And a mention of it in /usr/ports/UPDATING and/or /usr/ports/CHANGES. > And most ports work on a system > like 'make > WITHOUT_QUICKTIME=yes' or similar. Most ports use the OPTIONS framework, and more are being converted over to it all the time. Eventually, hopefully, all ports will use the OPTIONS framework, although there will always be a few items that can't be squeezed into OPTIONS that will require a -DWITH_BLAH or WITH_BLAH=whatever. -- Freddie Cash fcash@ocis.net
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