On 10/18/16 13:54, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 08:49:06AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> Yes, there is a lot of useful stuff in the ports tree to support local >> ports or even whole local categories of ports. I can't recall now how I >> learned about all this stuff -- it may well have been just be a >> combination of reading Makefiles and hints dropped on mailing lists. I >> cannot recall a document describing this stuff anywhere. > > I don't believe that there is one. > > I'm sure there are N locally-grown solutions out in the wild. > > We ought to work together to poll people on what they use. > > As for adding the category, I think there's a quick fix, if you don't > care about building INDEX. Add USE_LOCAL_MK=yes to your Makefile > invocations, and use the patch below. > > Note: I haven't tried this yet, so adding the category to ports/Makefile > may also be necessary to pacify ports/Mk/bsd.port.subdir.mk (e.g. INDEX.) > > Index: ports/Mk/bsd.local.mk > =================================================================== > --- ports/Mk/bsd.local.mk (revision 423944) > +++ ports/Mk/bsd.local.mk (working copy) > @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ > # time should live. > # > > +VALID_CATEGORIES+= local > + > .endif # !defined(_POSTMKINCLUDED) && !defined(Local_Pre_Include) > > .if defined(_POSTMKINCLUDED) && !defined(Local_Post_Include) > > mcl >
In many places in the ports you can drop in a Makefile.local that gets
unconditionally included into the existing Makefile at that level.
There are several names that get treated similarly -- so you can have (I
think) Makefile.amd64 which is only included when compiling for that
architecture. The idea being if you add a whole new file, you won't get
merge conflicts when updating from SVN. There's a Makefile.inc that
goes one level above that gets included similarly.
Unfortunately it looks like this doesn't apply at the very top level of
the ports, otherwise this would be a really easy way of adding a custom
category.
Hmmm... looks like this is handled in the 30 or so lines starting at
line 1179 of bsd.port.mk
Cheers,
Matthew
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