using ports without X

[Garrett Cooper]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "albi" <albi at scii.nl>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 11:33 AM
Subject: using ports without X


>
> i wanted to try "madman" from ports on a local fileserver, but i prefer
> not to compile X and Qt for this, is that possible ?
> a look at the Makefile and a google-search didn't provide any options
>
> can someone point me to certain general "flags" for /etc/make.conf to
> prevent X and Qt being build at all? tia
>
> -- 
> grtjs, albi
> gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import
>

Not sure if this is still valid as they aren't in the manpage, but try 
adding the following to your /etc/make.conf:

WITHOUT_X11=yes
WITHOUT_GUI=yes

That should disable building X for the entire system.
-Garrett