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Date:      Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:21:40 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>
To:        Paul Waring <paul@xk7.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: build ports without X -- make.conf
Message-ID:  <20051107132042.M34776@prime.gushi.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051107181402.GB25639@kryten.xk7.net>
References:  <20051107131443.E26113@prime.gushi.org> <20051107181402.GB25639@kryten.xk7.net>

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On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Paul Waring wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:16:27PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
>> In BSD 4.x, there was a section in the make.conf manpage that said you
>> could define WITHOUT_X11 and ports would build without it (for things like
>> ghostscript, cvsup, etc, which have distinctly different ports)
>>
>> For some reason this is gone in 5.x -- what's the appropriate way to do
>> this now (since WITHOUT_X11 still worked on a couple ports I've tried.)
>
> Who told you it had gone? I've been using WITHOUT_X11=yes ever since I
> started using FreeBSD as a server operating system, and it's always had
> the intended result, even up until now as I'm ready to go from 5.4->6.0.

man make.conf has lost the entry for the option.  I have to imagine it was 
removed for a reason.

-Dan

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