From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 27 10:06:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E33D116A4CE; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:06:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fillmore.dyndns.org (port-212-202-50-15.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.50.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8606943D2F; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:06:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com) Received: from dhcp-15.local ([172.16.0.15] helo=dhcp-13.local) by fillmore.dyndns.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.41 (FreeBSD)) id 1BpOqc-000Ep9-9z; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:06:16 +0200 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:07:20 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu From: Oliver Eikemeier In-Reply-To: <20040727122823.40c6c3c5@it.buh.tecnik93.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: Ion-Mihai Tetcu cc: Adam Weinberger Subject: Re: configuring ports via Makefile.local X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:06:18 -0000 Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > Yes, I know it can be done. However, since we do support Makefile.local > I think Radim has a point here. Hmmm, I would not exactly say that we support configuration via Makefile.local. Including Makefile.local is an undocumented feature for an unspecified purpose, so I can go away everytime and must not be relied upon. If it works for you, fine, but if it doesn't there is no support. To make it `supported' it has the be documented somewhere, which is something I won't like to see. The only reference I could find is bsd.port.mk Revision 1.285, Thu Aug 27 00:18:50 1998 UTC (5 years, 11 months ago) by asami (2) Include ${.CURDIR}/Makefile.local if it exists. This is a local configuration file (ala rc.conf.local and make.conf.local) so please do not commit a file with this name to the repository. Suggested by: dillon while this seems to support your assumption that configuring ports is the intended purpose, I would neither call this `documentation' nor can I find any reference how ports should support this file. In fact just .including is a suggested procedure in the FreeBSD Porters Handbook, regardless of the presence of configurable options. -Oliver