Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 00:10:25 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: WITH_GCC Message-ID: <4FAC2EC1.8040708@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CACdU%2Bf_77t7GCH2hm3hwcK2i%2BTcHUq_aBP4a7SeghQhGz3soDg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGFTUwPUFdP=Z20%2BbL59qFuh_V6R1R-GcyrK03dxESL6ZyGz7A@mail.gmail.com> <4F578AA7.4060008@FreeBSD.org> <4F990D9A.3090100@FreeBSD.org> <4FA643FA.3050206@FreeBSD.org> <4FAB6E01.50108@FreeBSD.org> <CACdU%2Bf_77t7GCH2hm3hwcK2i%2BTcHUq_aBP4a7SeghQhGz3soDg@mail.gmail.com>
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on 10/05/2012 19:48 Scot Hetzel said the following: > For Mk/bsd.database.mk - the meaning of USE_, WITH_ and WANT_ variables are: > > USE_* - Maintainer - Add dependency. If no version is given (by the > maintainer via the port or by the user via defined variable), try to > find the currently installed version. Fall back to default if > necessary. > > WITH_*_VER - User defined variable to set version > > WANT_*_VER - Maintainer can set an arbitrary version to always build > this port with (overrides WITH_*_VER). > > So the appropriate name for this user defined variable should be > WITH_GCC since it sets both a dependancy and version for GCC as > requested by the user. Thank you very much! P.S. Perhaps this information should also be somewhere in the Porter's Handbook. -- Andriy Gapon
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