Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 13:58:13 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Andreasen?= <sra@post5.tele.dk> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD question Message-ID: <20010721135813.B288@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <000701c11172$81b744a0$0701a8c0@workgroup>; from sra@post5.tele.dk on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:20:03PM -0700 References: <000701c11172$81b744a0$0701a8c0@workgroup>
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:20:03PM -0700, Søren Andreasen wrote:
> I can't find any info on how to remove some of the
> programs included in the FreeBSD installation process!
>
> I'm a BSD newbie! and need to remove 'BIND / named',
> because I am going to install the newest version directly
> from source code.
Create an /etc/make.conf that has "NO_BIND=true" in it. This will stop
BIND from being built when you run "make world".
Then build and install BIND, presumably installing it somewhere under
/usr/local/sbin. Then edit /etc/rc.conf to set
named_program=/usr/local/sbin/named
or similar.
> I can't use the ports system, because I need to configure it with
> LDAP support...
You can still use the ports system.
Take a look in ports/net/bind9/Makefile (assuming you want bind9, not
bind8 -- if you do want bind8 the procedure will be similar).
As you can see, it will use GNU Configure to do the configuration of the
program. And there's a variable, CONFIGURE_ARGS, which contains the
arguments that will be passed to "configure".
The procedure is something like this:
# cd /usr/ports/net/bind9
# make patch
This will download, extract, and patch the source code for you. It will
not run "configure".
The source code will have been extracted in to a directory hierarchy
under work/ in the current directory. Take a look in there for the
installation documentation. It will tell you to run "configure" and
pass it arguments depending on what you want to do.
[ I don't have the source code for bind9 to hand -- everything that
follows from this point is hypothetical, and you will need to compare it
against the bind documentation ]
Suppose that the documentation says that in order to enable LDAP support
you must include "--enable-ldap" on the command line to configure.
You can now edit /usr/ports/net/bind9/Makefile, and change the
CONFIGURE_ARGS variable so that it includes "--enable-ldap" on the
command line. Then you can run "make" and "make install" as normal.
Bind will be configured, installed, and registered in /var/db/pkg like
every other application you install.
If you do this, and want to contribute back to FreeBSD, can I suggest
that you take a little extra time and adjust the Makefile so that it
contains something like
.if defined(WITH_LDAP)
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= <args>
LIB_DEPENDS= <libs>
.endif
where <args> are the additional arguments that need to be passed to
configure, and <libs> are any dependencies on the LDAP libraries that
bind needs when configured with LDAP support. You should then send
these changes to FreeBSD's bind9 maintainer, dougb@freebsd.org, so that
other people can benefit as well.
Hope that helps,
N
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