Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 22:05:41 +0200 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Evenson <evenson@panix.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: setting EMACS_PORT_NAME=emacs22 forks make infinitely at the port registration step Message-ID: <1148414741.61285.25.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> In-Reply-To: <44736A9A.6050201@panix.com> References: <200204301328.g3UDS9X43078@thelonious.eziba.com> <e4vm6k$obv$1@sea.gmane.org> <1148412647.61285.21.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <44736A9A.6050201@panix.com>
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Mark Evenson p=C3=AD=C5=A1e v =C3=BAt 23. 05. 2006 v 22:03 +0200:
> Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > Mark Evenson p=C3=AD=C5=A1e v =C3=BAt 23. 05. 2006 v 21:01 +0200:
> >=20
> >> Am I using the EMACS_PORT_NAME variable correctly? (i.e. its not a=20
> >> forbidden user knob like USE_XXX)
> >=20
> > You must never set up any internal variables. This is one of them.
> > You should limit yourself to WITH_*, WITHOUT_*, and the variables
> > explicitly documented in end user documentation.
> >=20
>=20
> Dumb question: what do you mean by end user documentation? What the por=
t=20
> emits to the console in the process of building plus available options=20
> stored under /var/db/ports?
I mean The Handbook, section Ports and Packages. Also man 7 ports.
And of course the output to the console.
> Andrey Slusar's reply to this thread [[1]] seems to imply that=20
> EMACS_PORT_NAME *is* a end user option. But then you have a @freebsd.org=
=20
> address and he doesn't=E2=80=A6
Andrey Slusar is _the_ guy with the authority about Emacs on FreeBSD.
He probably knows much better than me.
> Without an end-user mechanism like EMACS_PORT_NAME, maintaining all Emacs=
=20
> dependent ports for separate versions of Emacs will get combinationally=20
> explosive. So ports just supports one canonical version of Emacs (what's=
=20
> in editors/emacs) for all Emacs add-ons (like psvn, nxml, etc.)?
Andrey?
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Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
<pav@FreeBSD.org>
You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep
the rabbit hole goes....
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