Who should honor WITHOUT_X11?

RW fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com
Thu Jun 19 16:06:33 UTC 2008


On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:36:56 -0700
"Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd at 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?

src.conf is for the base-system only.  X11 is not in the base-system,
so nothing in the base-system will be affected by WITHOUT_X11. You put
it in make.conf, or any other place where you configure for ports. 


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