From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Aug 4 0:29:32 2002 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 C976837B400; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 00:29:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C2D143E65; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 00:29:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from k7.mavetju (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 442462B6E5; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 09:29:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9F5F86A711E; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 17:28:53 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 17:28:53 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: Clint Olsen , obrien@freebsd.org, corecode@corecode.ath.cx Subject: Re: Ports: mutt with curses instead of slang? Message-ID: <20020804072853.GJ2733@k7.mavetju> References: <20020724175641.GA16725@0lsen.net> <20020725162811.GD96372@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020730214952.GA38950@0lsen.net> <20020804061655.GM1973@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020804061655.GM1973@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 11:16:55PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 02:49:52PM -0700, Clint Olsen wrote: > > On Jul 25, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > > > Slang should be used when built by the FreeBSD Package cluster. I much > > > prefer slang over ncurses -- I don't remember the battle I lost such that > > > ncurses is the default. Just build with `make WANT_SLANG=yes' > > > > Can you tell me where this WANT_SLANG is documented? This is one part > > about BSD that I don't like - the intricate build stuff... > > No where really. I don't know how to nicely document the various port > building knobs other than having someone read the port makefile. Maybe > we need to add a new make target that prints out all the knobs and a > one-line description? Sound like a job for pkg-opts as described in the thread "Proposed new 'options' target" a couple of weeks ago. See for example http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=443560+0+archive/2002/freebsd-ports/20020728.freebsd-ports Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php bash$ :(){ :|:&};: | Interested in MUDs? http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message