From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Dec 19 2: 2:35 2000 From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 02:02:33 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from babylon.merseine.nu (c418236-a.clmba1.mo.home.com [24.12.203.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A651737B402 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 02:02:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ishmael@localhost) by babylon.merseine.nu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBJA3Ii65571; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 04:03:18 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ishmael) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 04:03:18 -0600 From: Jeremy Norris To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4 Port Message-ID: <20001219040318.B7935@babylon.merseine.nu> References: <20001217004251.A47353@external.org> <20001218134601.A5634@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:25:46AM +0100 Sender: ishmael@babylon.merseine.nu Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What about doing the following in each of the XFree86-4-subports: MASTERDIR=${PORTSDIR}/x11/XFree86-4 WRKDIR=${MASTERDIR}/work Then make XFree86-4 like other meta-ports, except have it fetch the distfiles. Thus all the XFree86-4-subports could share the same working directory, no? Jeremy On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:25:46AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Ade Lovett writes: > > The real solution is for x11/XFree86-4 to be completely gutted and > > turned into a meta-port, depending on all of the other XFree86-4 > > components. > > No. > > > This was the original goal, and I have no idea (nor does it cease > > to amaze me) why it hasn't been done. > > Because until XFree86 get a grip and start distributing their sources > in a more reasonable format, each of the subports would need to unpack > the entire 200-megabyte XFree86 source code and build significant > portions of it - and if you have five subports, you end up with five > copies of the source code (totalling one gigabyte!) plus assorted > binaries before you get the chance to 'make clean'. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message