ports structure and improvement suggestions

[Frank Laszlo]

Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Frank Laszlo píše v čt 11. 05. 2006 v 08:09 -0400:
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>> Pav Lucistnik wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 11 May 2006 06:48:23 -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote
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>>>> Serge Gagnon wrote:
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>>>>> If you're talking about message that the port is saying about KNOB, try 
>>>>> grep ECHO Makefile and if you're talking about message while the port is 
>>>>> installing stuff, try cat pkg-message before installing this port ;-)
>>>>>
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>>>> As I said before, a simple method to fix this problem would be to 
>>>> extend the way OPTIONS works, where we create a new target to list 
>>>> possibly options for the port, and require maintainers to keep it up 
>>>> to date. i.e.
>>>>
>>>> # make options
>>>> ===> Options for foo/bar.
>>>> WITH_BAR     Build port with support for bar
>>>> WITH_FOO    blah
>>>> WITH_A          blah blah...
>>>>
>>>> This would be fairly simple to implement using the current way 
>>>> OPTIONS are handled, I'll add this to my list of todo items.
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>>> We already have this. Tried make showconfig?
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>> This only shows currently configured options and depends on the
>> existence of  _OPTIONSFILE. I would like to see a target that shows user
>> configurable options BEFORE they are built/configured.
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>
> You are right.  That's not very useful.  I have just submitted this
> patch:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?q=97133
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>   

Great! There's a start. it looks pretty good, and is a hell of a lot
more useful than the previous showconfig target.


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