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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:34:29 -0400
From:      "Frank J. Laszlo" <laszlof@vonostingroup.com>
To:        Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup <seb@struchtrup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: alternative options for ports
Message-ID:  <416DAD75.7000504@vonostingroup.com>
In-Reply-To: <416DAB52.5070404@struchtrup.com>
References:  <416C0DE8.3000004@struchtrup.com> <416C35A5.4040703@vonostingroup.com> <20041013123840.GB1301@FreeBSD.org> <20041013193432.GA53895@hub.freebsd.org> <416DAB52.5070404@struchtrup.com>

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>
>> Since we go to a *lot* of work building packages and making them
>> available there must be a huge number of consumers of them.  We 
>> should be
>> making more port variations.  vim-gtk, vim-kde, vim-athena, vim-motif 
>> for
>> instance.  That way a pkg_add user and get what they want.
>>  
>>
> I assume that this is currently done by hand? To say build the vim 
> port with options --with-gtk, --with-kde and --with_arena?
> Or is there a way to set this in a Makefile? Not only altering the 
> package name from vim to vim-xxx, but to define configurations for 
> automatic package building?

using vim as an example, currently the port recognises env variables 
like most other ports do. e.g. WITH_GTK2, WITH_ATHENA etc.. these 
generally make changes to the CONFIGURE_ARGS.  Regarding package 
building, there is an option (with the vim port) for PACKAGE_BUILDING 
which builds with the most common options. I'm not exactly sure what 
kind of answer you were looking for, but just my little input on the 
subject :)

Regards,
    Frank



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