message for port developers

[Gert Cuykens]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:22:18 +0100, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:17:46 +0100, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:01:57 +0100, Phil Schulz <ph.schulz at gmx.de> wrote:
> > > I'm not a port developer but I think you are looking for either `make
> > > configure` or the BATCH variable.
> > >
> > >   If you know which ports you want to install on your system, you can do
> > > a `make configure' for each port (where it is availeable) and then have
> > > a skript fire up the `make install's. I'm not sure though if that works
> > > recursively, i.e. you run `make configure' for e.g. the Gnome meta port
> > > and you configure all the dependencies with that one command. Why don't
> > > you try it? ;-)
> > >   If you think the default options are ok for you, you can add a line
> > > like "BATCH=yes" in /etc/make.conf and the ports will be built w/o any
> > > user interaction. Very useful for large builds.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > >
> > > Phil.
> > >
> >
> > BATCH=yes i can not do because some configuration leave some very nice toys out.
> >
> > Now lets see you can call all dependencies with this if your index is working :)
> >
> > make pretty-print-build-depends-list
> > so with some grep magic you could tell to do make config in all does
> > dependencies. Now the trickie part how do you find out the new
> > dependencies after does configure screens ?
> >
> 
> a maybe updating the index and do the same thing all over again until
> there are no new dependencies ?
> 

can you update the index after a configure that adds a extra
dependencie to the port ?