Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 23:05:17 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Brian Kee <brianakee@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Passing Options to Dependancies During make Message-ID: <20050909030517.GA2674@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <34bd754105090818362f318091@mail.gmail.com> References: <34bd754105090818362f318091@mail.gmail.com>
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--6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 08:36:00PM -0500, Brian Kee wrote: > How would one go about passing OPTIONS to a dependancy during a port make= .=20 > For example,=20 > PORTA depends upon PORTB, but to build PORTB correctly so that is has so= me=20 > functionality required to operate correctly with PORTA you have to set so= me=20 > option (WITH_XXX) during the build process of PORTB. How can one configur= e=20 > the PORTA Makefile to tell the PORTB Makfile to use a specific option? > Is this possible? > If we set WITH_XXX=3Dyes during the make of PORTA, will this be passed d= own=20 > to the build process of PORTB?=20 > (e.g. cd /usr/ports/PORTA; make WITH_XXX=3Dyes) This is a FAQ. The real answer is that even if you could do this, it wouldn't work if the user already had PORTB installed, and what you should do is make a slave port of PORTB that turns on the option by default and CONFLICTS with the main PORTB, so it will at least fail gracefully in this case. Kris --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDIPvsWry0BWjoQKURAjiDAKD0dbmcpXJrdl8oFnB0j//KLHmsDACfVjhy P3/f0nt6v46JKXGuBCT4yY0= =ol9H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi--
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