Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-24 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Carl wrote: As for manually customizing /var/db/ports//options, the port builds in question are done in a clean chroot using a batch process, so "make config" doesn't happen and /var/db/ports//options never exists. Why not just make `cat options.txt` Where options.txt

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-24 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 04/24/2011 11:26 AM, Carl wrote: > On 2011-04-22 4:13 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: >> On 04/22/2011 10:33 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: >>> On 04/22/2011 10:08 AM, Carl wrote: > This form will override the Makefile present in the current directory > and will use the specified make file with n

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-24 Thread Chris Rees
On 24 Apr 2011 09:29, "Carl" wrote: > > On 2011-04-22 4:13 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: >> >> On 04/22/2011 10:33 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: >>> >>> On 04/22/2011 10:08 AM, Carl wrote: > > This form will override the Makefile present in the current directory > and will use the specified

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-24 Thread Carl
On 2011-04-22 4:13 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 04/22/2011 10:33 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 04/22/2011 10:08 AM, Carl wrote: This form will override the Makefile present in the current directory and will use the specified make file with name your_own_make_file_name . make -f your_own_make_

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Apr 21 22:45:24 2011 > Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:17:31 -0700 > From: Carl > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: building a port with very long list of build options > > Let's say I want to build a port for which I need to specify a huge > n

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-22 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 04/22/2011 10:33 AM, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > On 04/22/2011 10:08 AM, Carl wrote: >>> This form will override the Makefile present in the current directory >>> and will use the specified make file with name your_own_make_file_name . >> make -f your_own_make_file_name >> >> Yes, I did see that, b

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-22 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Carl wrote: > On 2011-04-21 8:52 PM, Polytropon wrote: > >> This has been possible and common in the past. For example, >> the many options for the mplayer and mencoder ports could >> be specified in a file, so changing of a port's file was >> not needed. I'm not

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-22 Thread Chris Rees
On 22 April 2011 08:08, Carl wrote: > On 2011-04-21 8:52 PM, Polytropon wrote: >> >> This has been possible and common in the past. For example, >> the many options for the mplayer and mencoder ports could >> be specified in a file, so changing of a port's file was >> not needed. I'm not fully sur

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-22 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 04/22/2011 10:08 AM, Carl wrote: > >> >> This form will override the Makefile present in the current directory >> and will use the specified make file with name your_own_make_file_name . > make -f your_own_make_file_name > > Yes, I did see that, but I interpreted that to mean my make file > *rep

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-22 Thread Carl
On 2011-04-21 8:52 PM, Polytropon wrote: This has been possible and common in the past. For example, the many options for the mplayer and mencoder ports could be specified in a file, so changing of a port's file was not needed. I'm not fully sure this option is still present, but at least on v7 i

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-21 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Carl wrote: > Let's say I want to build a port for which I need to specify a huge number > of build options (eg. ghostscript). In my case I am cross-compiling on an > amd64 host for what will be a NanoBSD i386 target, but I don't think that's > important here. Th

Re: building a port with very long list of build options

2011-04-21 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:17:31 -0700, Carl wrote: > Given that I do not want to customize the port's Makefile, I was hoping > 'make' would support a command line option that would let me simply > point to a separate file containing the list of variables to add, one > per line. It's not apparent t