alternative options for ports
Sergei Kolobov
sergei at FreeBSD.org
Wed Oct 13 00:30:28 PDT 2004
On 2004-10-12 at 15:51 -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote:
> I personally do not like dialog's in ports, period. It makes unattended
> builds a pain, mostly when compiling large ports with an extensive list
> of depends, you never know which dependency is going to pop up a dialog
> in the middle of an all-night build. I would suggest implementing your
> idea specifically for your port. I dont see any reason to hack up
> bsd.port.mk with anymore dialogs.
For unattended builds just set either PACKAGE_BUILDING=yes or BATCH=yes
to avoid any configuration dialogs.
Sergei
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