ports structure and improvement suggestions

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

Florent Thoumie wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 13:14 +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> > .if ${.CURDIR:M*/audio/amarok}
> > WITH_XINE=      true
> > #...
> > .endif
> 
> I think you guys aren't lazy enough.
> 
> - Put http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/mkconf somewhere in ${PATH}.
> - Add the following to /etc/make.conf:
> 
> === snip ===
> .if ${.CURDIR:N/usr/ports/*}==""
> _MKCONF!=mkconf
> .for i in ${_MKCONF}
> ${i}
> .endfor
> .endif
> === snip ===
> 
> - Create a /etc/ports.conf file with lines like:
> www/apache20: WITH_FOO=yes WITH_BAR=no


Ach, you gotta love those evil twisted .for-loops in make. Who came up
with the unroll-first-parse-later strategy?

Ulrich Spoerlein
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