Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 10:19:16 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller23@insightbb.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Subject: Re: Building Ports: Is there a "make" equivalent for --batch ? Message-ID: <CADLo83-=3p_5hJqJ2NRu72C%2B3D4Xb69NrzT%2BwZPfaOmEZ9ki1w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CADLo838E7J=p0HXrW9oYScOPjeA6j5r=nXqb3qDEiccs6ceLqQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <D5.88.07499.AD092705@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> <CADLo838E7J=p0HXrW9oYScOPjeA6j5r=nXqb3qDEiccs6ceLqQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8 Oct 2012 10:16, "Chris Rees" <utisoft@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 8 Oct 2012 09:38, "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com> wrote:
> >
> > from Polytropon:
> >
> > > A workaround (and not directly the answer to your question) is
> > > to process the config dialogs before starting the build:
> >
> > > # make config-recursive
> >
> > > Once set, the options won't be requested on a second run.
> > > According to "man 7 ports", there's a BATCH setting, but
> > > it is descibed as:
> >
> > > If defined, only operate on a port if it can be
> > > installed 100% automatically.
> >
> > This helps ("make config-recursive"), but depending on options chosen
and
> > resulting added dependencies, the config dialog can appear again. So I
run
> > "make config-recursive" repeatedly until it just returns to shell
prompt.
> > That works most of the time.
> >
> > My biggest reason for doing this is to be able to run the portmaster or
make
> > command with "|& tee build.log" at the end, and config dialog is very
> > hostile to this. It is also helpful to be able to allow a long
portmaster or
> > portupgrade, or package build, to run unattended.
>
> make BATCH=yes
Sorry, didn't properly read it... bad manners there :(
BATCH skips OPTIONS dialogs and simply accepts defaults; unless the port is
interactive in another way (i.e. asks questions that aren't OPTIONS) where
it will be skipped.
Chris
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