From 0fcf3e89ac04dce5a294904a16db453ca5cc9ac2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: justin Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:59:51 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Break out BATCH note, describe configing only one package but leave deps as default. --- docs/docs/howtos/HowToDPorts/index.mdwn | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/docs/howtos/HowToDPorts/index.mdwn b/docs/docs/howtos/HowToDPorts/index.mdwn index 96b35706..c10c4365 100644 --- a/docs/docs/howtos/HowToDPorts/index.mdwn +++ b/docs/docs/howtos/HowToDPorts/index.mdwn @@ -38,7 +38,11 @@ Since DPorts doesn’t update a package until it gets a successful build, and in ## Building from source -Building from source works similar to ports and pkgsrc: cd into the appropriate program's directory, and type 'make'. 'make install' to install the software, 'make clean' to clean up work files, and so on. Set BATCH=yes to take all default package options without checking. Use 'make config-recursive' if you want to set all the port's options, and the options of its dependencies, immediately instead of during the build. +Building from source works similar to ports and pkgsrc: cd into the appropriate program's directory, and type 'make'. 'make install' to install the software, 'make clean' to clean up work files, and so on. Use 'make config-recursive' if you want to set all the port's options, and the options of its dependencies, immediately instead of during the build. + +*You will eventually want to do this:* Set BATCH=yes to take all default package options without having the build stop to ask questions. + +If you just want to set the options for one package, and accept the default for all of its dependencies, do 'make config' in the package in you want non-default options, and then 'make BATCH=yes'. Note that this is only necessary if you want to build from source with a non-default config, or if you don't have a binary repository available to pull files from with pkg. -- 2.41.0