ports/146979: editors/emacs configuration ignores "-D WITHOUT_X11"

[Ashish SHUKLA]

The following reply was made to PR ports/146979; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: wahjava at gmail.com (Ashish SHUKLA)
To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman at proper.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/146979: editors/emacs configuration ignores "-D WITHOUT_X11"
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 05:10:34 +0530

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 Paul Hoffman writes:
 
 [...]
 
 > I'm pretty sure "make -DWITHOUT_X11" worked as expected a few years ago w=
 hen
 > I created editors/emacs-nox11.
 
 #v+
 % make -C /usr/ports/editors/emacs -DWITHOUT_X11 -V CONFIGURE_ARGS
 =2D-without-x --prefix=3D/usr/local ${_LATE_CONFIGURE_ARGS}
 #v-
 
 > There is a strong need for servers that don't want to have lots of
 > X11-specific goop installed to be able to install current Emacs. The conf=
 ig
 > dialog should not fight with that.
 
 > Is the use of the config dialog inherently incompatible with -D variables?
 
 config UI is just a helper UI to let you set OPTIONS which a port claims to
 support. You can set those OPTIONS over command-line also, and how those
 OPTIONS are being interpreted is upto the port Makefile.
 
 HTH
 =2D-=20
 Ashish SHUKLA
 
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