Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:41:41 -0400 From: david coder <dacoder@dcoder.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: port configuration data [was re: firefox & png] Message-ID: <20120823164141.GF4662@mail3.dcoder.net> In-Reply-To: <20120823162618.GE4662@mail3.dcoder.net> References: <20120822230150.GB4662@mail3.dcoder.net> <20120823011751.69a5849f.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120822234355.GC4662@mail3.dcoder.net> <20120823020015.644e38b0.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120823065406.GA3410@kontrol.kode5.net> <20120823162618.GE4662@mail3.dcoder.net>
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+++ david coder [23/08/12 12:26 -0400]: > +++ Jamie Paul Griffin [23/08/12 07:54 +0100]: >> [ Polytropon wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 2:00:15 +0200 ] >> >>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:43:55 -0400, david coder wrote: >>> > thx, i hadn't seen the reply to my earlier message. >>> > > unfortunately, though i've got the png port installed w/ > > >>> OPTIONS= APNG "Animated PNG support" On >>> >>> That should be the default. Anyway, you can always check which >>> options had been in use when building and installing a port: >>> >>> % cat /var/db/ports/png/options >>> # This file is auto-generated by 'make config'. >>> # No user-servicable parts inside! >>> # Options for png-1.4.8 >>> _OPTIONS_READ=png-1.4.8 >>> WITH_APNG=true >>> >>> In this example you can see that it has been properly installed. >>> >>> >>> >>> > the install of freebsd fails w/ the error message given below. >>> >>> Sadly the Firefox build error message is not included. >>> >>> >>> >>> > is there something else required in the png makefile or elsewhere that i'm >>> > missing? >>> >>> I'm sure this entry of /usr/ports/UPDATING applies: >>> >>> 20120531: >>> AFFECTS: users of graphics/png >>> AUTHOR: dinoex@FreeBSD.org >>> >>> The PNG library has been updated to version 1.5.10. Please rebuild all >>> ports that depend on it. >> >> I built Firefox 14 a couple of days ago and png installed is now version 1.5.12. So an updated ports tree should incorporate that change now shouldn't it. > > true, but from what i have been able to sniff out on my own, ports > configuration data are stored in /usr/local/include, not anywhere in the ports > tree, so that if png has been installed already & you do a "make showconfig" > in /usr/ports/graphics/png, the data are read from files in /usr/local/include, > & if you run "make config" in /usr/ports/graphics/png, the files affected by > any change are in /usr/local/include, not anywhere in the ports tree. > > this has been a learning experience for me & prolly will continue to be as > others here correct me. > > david coder > _______________________________________________ it's happened already: in another post here, polytropon gives a more central role to /var/db/ports/png/options. if i understand him correctly, "make showconfig" executed in /usr/ports/graphics/png reads from that file. changes made through "make config" change both that file & files in /usr/local/include & subdirectories thereof. please correct me if i'm wrong. david coder
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