Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:46:23 -0400 From: david coder <dacoder@dcoder.net> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port configuration data [was re: firefox & png] Message-ID: <20120823174623.GA17222@mail3.dcoder.net> In-Reply-To: <20120823191750.65ad7e61.freebsd@edvax.de> 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> <20120823164141.GF4662@mail3.dcoder.net> <20120823191750.65ad7e61.freebsd@edvax.de>
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+++ Polytropon [23/08/12 19:17 +0200]: >On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:41:41 -0400, david coder wrote: >> 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. > >Nothing in /usr/local is going to be changed until "make install" >(or "make deinstall" respectively) is executed. In /usr/local/include >header files are _installed_ for accessing library functions, mostly >a means for programmers to interface with software. > >But it's correct that you mention /usr/local/include/libpng/pngconf.h >here. It's not to be changed by "make configure", but it will be >created by "make install", reflecting the properties libpng has >been installed with; it's a "machine configurable file for libpng" >by its own declaration. It belongs to the png port, _not_ to the >port configuration subsystem (which is _independent_ from the >ports theirselves. > > > > >-- >Polytropon >Magdeburg, Germany >Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 >Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... thx for the correction & further education, polytropon. much obliged. david coder
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