From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jun 27 22:55:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA03743 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 22:55:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hwcn.org (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA03738 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 22:55:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by hwcn.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA04080; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 01:44:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 01:44:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Sue Blake cc: Tim Vanderhoek , Brett Taylor , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Concurrent package making allowed? In-Reply-To: <19980628153402.12114@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > > You should look in the Makefile of any port before you compile it... > > If you know what the stuff in a Makefile is. Beginners won't. I'm juuuust > staaaarting to learn about them, and I've been blindly typing "make > install" for months. No, you're supposed to be looking for comments like: # Change this to "yes" to enable compilation of the foo-baz feature Or, to grab a real-life example... # Remove the below line to get Cyrillic code page support instead (free cookie to whoever guesses which port -- no cheating! ;-). > You mean categories like audio? graphics? We found that didn't help. > If I could use grep to exclude everything uninteresting from INDEX I'd be > happy as larry, but we haven't found a way to do that that comes close. No, those aren't the categories I mean. x11 and tk* are the ones. Rest assured I certainly wasn't thinking of either audio or graphics since I can name ones offhand from both that don't require X. :) > Hmm.. ok, maybe there's a good solution there but it would have gone over > my head. I'm just a user who wanted to explain why it's hard to avoid > installing the wrong stuff. I think my point has been taken and there's > nothing more I can usefully contribute. It'll be fixed one day if it can > be, and that's great. Thanks for listening. Hehe. I've had to work from a non-X computer before, too. :) -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message