svn commit: r39468 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports
Isabell Long
issyl0 at FreeBSD.org
Wed Aug 29 14:29:03 UTC 2012
Author: issyl0
Date: Wed Aug 29 14:29:03 2012
New Revision: 39468
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/39468
Log:
Add a note about make's config-recursive option to the ports chapter of
the Handbook.
PR: docs/164826
Approved by: gjb (mentor)
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml Wed Aug 29 05:59:54 2012 (r39467)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml Wed Aug 29 14:29:03 2012 (r39468)
@@ -976,6 +976,18 @@ docbook =
<command>make <maketarget>install</maketarget></command> and
<command>make <maketarget>clean</maketarget></command>
as three separate steps.</para>
+
+ <para>When installing a port, using only <command>make
+ <maketarget>install</maketarget></command> from the
+ beginning means there will potentially be many waiting
+ periods between user interaction as the default behaviour
+ is to prompt the user for options. When there are many
+ dependencies, this sometimes makes building a single port
+ a huge hassle. To avoid this, first run <command>make
+ <maketarget>config-recursive</maketarget></command> to
+ do the configuration in one batch. Then run
+ <command>make <maketarget>install
+ [clean]</maketarget></command> afterwards.</para>
</note>
<note>
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