ports/36112: [PATCH] New feature for whole ports tree: GS_PORT variable

[Jens Rehsack]

On 28.07.2003 14:49, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 02:38:03PM +0200, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> 
>> I mean that I see the requirement of checking for -nox11, but I
>> don't want to introduce it overall, because I see that the
>> configure scripts of mail/courier and graphics/ImageMagic check
>> for it separately. So I wanted to hear what the port experts say
>> to that problem.
> 
> That's not really a problem; ports that have their own optional X11
> dependencies can (and should) have their WITHOUT_X11 checks to disable
> this, but there's no need for it to also add -nox11 to the ghostscript
> port.  The use would just set WITHOUT_X11=foo to turn off x11 support
> in ImageMagick, and GHOSTSCRIPT_PORT=print/ghostscript-gnu-x11 to make
> it depend on a non-X11 ghostscript variant.

The prblem is here:
# cd /usr/port/textproc/latex2html
# env WITHOUT_X11 make build install clean
   --> this action will build and install latex2html's current
       version but it will depent on print/ghostscript-[a-z]
       instead of print/ghostscript-[a-z]-nox11 as it should.
       A portupgrade -fa (without having WITHOUT_X11 defined)
       will re-build ghostscript with X11 support this time.
   --> A check for the -nox11 ghostscript port is an easy way
       and should be done by the included script.

>> >What would such a bsd.ghostscript.mk contain?
>> 
>> Not much, just a check for the right ghostscript-port (gnu/afpl,
>> (-nox11){0,1}). And maybe some common things from
>> ghostscript-*/Makefile (must be checked before).
> 
> Unless there's something substantial to be done, there's not a big
> reason to break it out of bsd.port.mk into its own makefile.

Hm, different people, different meanings. I agree to the politic
of Joe Markus Clarke. I like smaller, easier provable files instead
of monolitic, hard maintainable ones.

But as a portmgr you really know what you do, so I'm not in a
position to disagree :-)

> Kris

Jens