ports/36112: [PATCH] New feature for whole ports tree: GS_PORT variable

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 02:38:03PM +0200, Jens Rehsack wrote:

> I mean that I see the requirement of checking for -nox11, but I
> don't want to introduce it overall, because I see that the
> configure scripts of mail/courier and graphics/ImageMagic check
> for it separately. So I wanted to hear what the port experts say
> to that problem.

That's not really a problem; ports that have their own optional X11
dependencies can (and should) have their WITHOUT_X11 checks to disable
this, but there's no need for it to also add -nox11 to the ghostscript
port.  The use would just set WITHOUT_X11=foo to turn off x11 support
in ImageMagick, and GHOSTSCRIPT_PORT=print/ghostscript-gnu-x11 to make
it depend on a non-X11 ghostscript variant.

> >What would such a bsd.ghostscript.mk contain?
> 
> Not much, just a check for the right ghostscript-port (gnu/afpl,
> (-nox11){0,1}). And maybe some common things from
> ghostscript-*/Makefile (must be checked before).

Unless there's something substantial to be done, there's not a big
reason to break it out of bsd.port.mk into its own makefile.

Kris