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 -- "SOY BOMB!" -The Chest of the nameless streaker of the 1998 Grammy Awards' Bob Dylan Performance. --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org ---------------------------
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