Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 14:47:00 -0700 From: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gamin vs fam Message-ID: <1118008020.86980.3.camel@server.mcneil.com> In-Reply-To: <1117993795.33641.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1117993395.12774.11.camel@server.mcneil.com> <1117993795.33641.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 13:49 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 10:43 -0700, Sean McNeil wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > Is there a way to setup my system to build and set dependencies to use > > gamin instead of fam? gamin is much fast in responding to vfs events, > > but all the ports appear to depend on fam. I've replaced fam previously > > and run pkgdb -F, but anytime a port is updated the dependency is messed > > up again looking for fam. Usually, when there is a choice I can place > > something in /etc/make.conf like WITH_GAMIN="yes". I don't see anything > > like this implemented for gamin/fam selection. > > I've submtited a PR for bsd.port.mk support for FAM/gamin. It's being > tested on the package build cluster now. In the meantime, uninstall > fam, install gamin, then rebuild gnomevfs2. Good news, thanks. Mezz supplied a link the the PR for this. Can I throw WANT_FAM_SYSTEM=gamin into my /etc/make.conf now or should I wait in case the patch changes the means for indicating which one to use? Sean
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