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Date:      Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:11:56 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
To:        "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Who should honor WITHOUT_X11?
Message-ID:  <20080619191156.00e517f6@peedub.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0806190836u2f0f96d6i75b3fc1b4edd73b1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:36:56 -0700
"Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> wrote:

> Trying to build dbus recently on my system without X11 installed, I
> ran into a few compile issues because I had put WITHOUT_X11=yes into
> src.conf. However, I put WITHOUT_X11=yes into make.conf and was able
> to compile dbus properly (in the end).
> 
> So, my questions are:
> 1. Should make.conf be responsible for the WITHOUT_X11 or should
> another file be responsible for it?
> 2. Is it already documented in a manpage somewhere? It isn't
> documented in `man make.conf'.
> 

It's documented in src.conf(5) that it only applies to the FreeBSD
source tree, which does not include the ports tree.  Only make.conf
is globally applicable.

---
Gary Jennejohn



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