Creating port with options

Scot Hetzel swhetzel at gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 09:29:25 PDT 2005


On Apr 12, 2005 11:22 AM, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2005 6:38 PM, Alejandro Pulver <alejandro at varnet.biz> wrote:
> > Wich is the best way to manage conflictive options inside the OPTIONS
> > variable?
> >
> That should be work, but it may store the bad option in the options
> file.  They'll just have to do a make reconfig to correct it.
> 
Also don't forget to set PKGNAMESUFFIX for the ports package name
(-server, -x11-client, -ncurses-client).

> If you could split the port into 3 seperate ports:
> 
>  *-server
>  *-x11-client
>  *-ncurses-client
> 
> Then you wouldn't need to worry about using the OPTIONS variable.
> 
> This way you could make the *-client ports depend on the *-server port.
> 
> Scot
>


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