From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 21 13:00:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6292106564A for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:00:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: from syn.atarininja.org (syn.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EB9A8FC1A for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:00:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: by syn.atarininja.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EF31E5C2D; Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:00:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:00:12 -0400 From: Wesley Shields To: Cynthia Flynn <1cynthia2flynn3@telus.net> Message-ID: <20090321130012.GA13049@atarininja.org> References: <49C00745.1050607@telus.net> <20090318001138.GF95451@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20090318113023.7bc51ef4@ernst.jennejohn.org> <49c1fd04.Ul73kIip/JpE7k7C%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <830D8719-1F55-4BE7-B6D5-3C711F2D57C1@exit2shell.com> <49C4098A.6030200@telus.net> <49C43643.1000709@telus.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49C43643.1000709@telus.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Steven Kreuzer Subject: Re: mtools vs X11 (Re: FreeBSD Port: syslinux-3.72) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:00:14 -0000 On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 05:35:15PM -0700, Cynthia Flynn wrote: > Steven Kreuzer wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Cynthia Flynn wrote: > >> Can someone confirm for me that a normal port install of mtools brings > >> up a configuration menu in which the WITHOUT_X11 option can be set? I > >> do not remember seeing any such thing, but it has probably been 6 > >> months since I last tried it. > > > > when you do a make install for the mtools port, it does not prompt you > > if you would like to build the port without X11. This can be enabled by > > passing > > -DWITHOUT_X11 to make, or adding WITHOUT_X11=yes to make.conf to apply > > it to all ports that you build on that system > > And I should have to dig into each potential port to investigate whether > such options might exist before finding out the hard way that my system > is going to be loaded up with things I neither need nor want? Not a very > user friendly approach. There is a "missing" target which will show you what will be installed if you were to build the port. -- WXS