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From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org>
To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: NOPORTDOCS ignored on command line
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 06:07:07PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Unless I misremember, it used to be possible to specify NOPORTDOCS on
> the command line
> 
> $ make -DNOPORTDOCS
> 
> or in the environment
> 
> $ env NOPORTDOCS=yes make
> 
> when building and installing a port.  This doesn't work any longer,
> you now have to set it in /etc/make.conf, otherwise it won't be
> picked up.
> 
> Is this intentional?

Are you seeing any particular problem on any particular port?

wxs@rst wxs % cat Makefile 
all:
.if defined(NOPORTDOCS)
	@echo "defined"
.else
	@echo "not defined"
.endif
wxs@rst wxs % make
not defined
wxs@rst wxs % make -DNOPORTDOCS
defined
wxs@rst wxs % 

It works exactly how it should.

-- WXS