Who should honor WITHOUT_X11?

Garrett Cooper yanefbsd at gmail.com
Fri Jun 20 01:57:32 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Gary Jennejohn
<gary.jennejohn at freenet.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:36:56 -0700
> "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Trying to build dbus recently on my system without X11 installed, I
>> ran into a few compile issues because I had put WITHOUT_X11=yes into
>> src.conf. However, I put WITHOUT_X11=yes into make.conf and was able
>> to compile dbus properly (in the end).
>>
>> So, my questions are:
>> 1. Should make.conf be responsible for the WITHOUT_X11 or should
>> another file be responsible for it?
>> 2. Is it already documented in a manpage somewhere? It isn't
>> documented in `man make.conf'.
>>
>
> It's documented in src.conf(5) that it only applies to the FreeBSD
> source tree, which does not include the ports tree.  Only make.conf
> is globally applicable.

Thanks for the replies. Just thought I'd check :).
Should a /etc/{pkg,ports}.conf file be created to help segregate
setting these variables, or is this already done somewhere else
(pkgtools.conf)?
Thanks,
-Garrett


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