ports structure and improvement suggestions
Frank Laszlo
laszlof at vonostingroup.com
Thu May 11 12:51:39 UTC 2006
Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Frank Laszlo píše v čt 11. 05. 2006 v 08:09 -0400:
>
>> Pav Lucistnik wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 11 May 2006 06:48:23 -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote
>>>
>>>
>>>> Serge Gagnon wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> If you're talking about message that the port is saying about KNOB, try
>>>>> grep ECHO Makefile and if you're talking about message while the port is
>>>>> installing stuff, try cat pkg-message before installing this port ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> As I said before, a simple method to fix this problem would be to
>>>> extend the way OPTIONS works, where we create a new target to list
>>>> possibly options for the port, and require maintainers to keep it up
>>>> to date. i.e.
>>>>
>>>> # make options
>>>> ===> Options for foo/bar.
>>>> WITH_BAR Build port with support for bar
>>>> WITH_FOO blah
>>>> WITH_A blah blah...
>>>>
>>>> This would be fairly simple to implement using the current way
>>>> OPTIONS are handled, I'll add this to my list of todo items.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> We already have this. Tried make showconfig?
>>>
>>>
>> This only shows currently configured options and depends on the
>> existence of _OPTIONSFILE. I would like to see a target that shows user
>> configurable options BEFORE they are built/configured.
>>
>
> You are right. That's not very useful. I have just submitted this
> patch:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?q=97133
>
>
Great! There's a start. it looks pretty good, and is a hell of a lot
more useful than the previous showconfig target.
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