PATCH: Adding config-recursive to bsd.port.mk

[Chris Dillon]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Edwin Groothuis wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:15:10AM -0600, Chris Dillon wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:24:38PM -0600, Chris Dillon wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I got tired of starting long port builds with lots of dependances
>>>> (KDE, etc.) and having many of the ports stop the whole build
>>>> process to ask me what config options I wanted.  So, I thought what
>>>> if I could easily pre-config all of the dependancies?  Here is the
>>>> result, pretty much cut & paste from the fetch-recursive bits.
>>>> Patch attached, but if it doesn't come through it is available
>>>> here:
>>>
>>> Shouldn't it only do this for ports which aren't installed yet?
>>
>> What harm might come if the port is already installed and we create a
>> new config file for it?  All I can think of is that some of the
>> options you thought you were going to get may not be there when it is
>> all done since the port was already built, but it shouldn't break
>> anything.  At worst, you would have to re-install those ports which
>> were already installed to affect the changes you made to the config.
>> You would have had to do that anyway if it were necessary, even
>> without running this.  This just gives you an easy way to run 'make
>> config' on all the dependancies of a particular port.
>
> There would be no harm, but it is strange to exchange one annoying
> behaviour with another one: instead of having your build interrupted
> to config a every new port, you have to re-config every port again.
> And again. And again.

OK, I see your point.  I have added a check to see if the port is 
already config'd and skip it.  I also added a 'rmconfig-recursive' 
target so that if you really do want to re-configure all dependencies 
you can easily remove them all first, then run 'config-recursive'.

New patch is at:

ftp://ftp.wolves.k12.mo.us/pub/stuff/config-recursive.patch

If this is acceptable I will submit it in a PR for portmgr to 
consider.


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