make install + OPTIONS + RUN_DEPENDS

Adam Weinberger adamw at FreeBSD.org
Thu Apr 28 16:26:55 PDT 2005


Alejandro Pulver wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a meta-port that depends on ports that have options.
> 
> If I do a "make", then the meta-port prompts me to choose the ports I
> want to install. Then it does nothing (just touches the files in
> "work/").
> 
> After that I type "make install" and it installs all the ports it
> RUN_DEPENDS on (each of them prompts for their own options).
> 
> But if I do a "make install" the first time then the dependencies do not
> prompt for options.
> 
> Is this supposed to work like this? How can I make dependencies prompt
> for their options when the user types "make install" (without a
> previous "make")?
> 
> Thanks and Best Regards,
> Ale

It only prompts for configuration options the first time. You can see 
this for yourself by first running "make rmconfig" for each of the 
dependency ports.

# Adam


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