Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 13:10:17 GMT From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: www/78239: [patch] Building www from cvs without doc Message-ID: <200503011310.j21DAHTH046907@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR www/78239; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@offmyserver.com> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: www/78239: [patch] Building www from cvs without doc Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:07:27 +0100 --cQXOx3fnlpmgJsTP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2005.03.01 13:54:57 +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 13:51 +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > On 2005.03.01 13:34:00 +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > > >=20 > > > I might be missing something here, but it appears to me to be > > > impossible to build the www tree without also having the doc/ > > > module. > >=20 > > This is correct - it's a choice, not a bug. The web site you will get > > built withoing having doc/ is incomplete, though you can do www/ build > > without doc/ to do tests of most individual pages. > >=20 > > This should probably be documented more clearly... >=20 > Then perhaps it would be beneficial to apply the second part of the > patch only? It seems logical that this is only an issue for people new > to the www build process (such as myself, heh), so just typing ``make'' > and having it tell me about the WEB_ONLY knob as well would probably > save some confusion in the future. Yes, I will try to have a look at it when I get home tonight. > Sorry if this is well-documented on the list; I guess I should have > searched here first. Well, I actually don't think it is... The dependency was added when the mirror list was started to be auto generated from XML, I don't think it has been brought up later. In general not that many people build www/ by them self :-). --=20 Simon L. Nielsen --cQXOx3fnlpmgJsTP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCJGkPh9pcDSc1mlERArm4AKCOuktAtj1U/N5IswDLyFBqk+3lFgCgtSht MXMkNoudE+XxUpnBtB92K6Y= =0xoD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cQXOx3fnlpmgJsTP--
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