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Old 8th May 2009
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Default How to get port's building options?

Hi,

I would like to see with which options (WITH_*** or WITHOUT_***) a port can be built.
Is there a way to see this recursively through the dependencies?

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does display option that will be proposed by the GUI prompt, but not the WITH or WITHOUT option available. I guess they must be related or similar but i would like to have the exact list.

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AFAIK, you can simply check the Makefile, e.g.:
% grep 'WITH' Makefile

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edit: I just noticed the "recursively through the dependencies" part of your question. I don't know of a quick way to do that; I would probably kludge together a shell script.
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"make config" will bring up the ncurses configuration screen; make "config-recursive" does the same for meta-ports that have multiple configuration screens in the various subports.

You can also read the Makefile(s).
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Thank you for your answers.

@anomie:
Stupid question but.... once i get the WITH options through that method... how do I use them to compile in one command line?

@DrJ
I have seen this one but, it doesn't really solve my problem. I can help for a port and it's depedencies but it won't help if i have 20 ports to install in a row. or did I miss an option?
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Stupid question but.... once i get the WITH options through that method... how do I use them to compile in one command line?
make -DWITH_OPTION1 -DWITH_OPTION2 ... install clean
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I have seen this one but, it doesn't really solve my problem. I can help for a port and it's depedencies but it won't help if i have 20 ports to install in a row. or did I miss an option?
You can run "make config" for all 20 and then just "make install clean" them. Usually you only have to do this the first time round. Thereafter there may be a screen or two when you update, but the heavy lifting has been done.
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thank you.
I tried : make -DWITH_OPTION but it is still firing the GUI for the options.

So far the repetitive "make config" seems to be the best solution...
but it is not quite what i wanted though...

Ideal would be to use the line "make -DWITH_OPTION" without the GUI appearing.
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I tried : make -DWITH_OPTION but it is still firing the GUI for the options.
Hmm. Not all ports use a config screen. Openoffice is one example, and I always make it -DWITHOUT_MOZILLA.
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Ideal would be to use the line "make -DWITH_OPTION" without the GUI appearing.
Strictly that's the ncurses screen, but I know what you mean. I don't know of a way to get around that. Maybe there is, but I don't know it.

I don't view it as much of a limitation, personally. Most ports these days use all the cores you have, so there really is no point in running them in parallel. You also can get into trouble doing that anyway.

It also is usually a good idea to see that one port has installed properly before moving on to the next. Otherwise you really should script the session to figure out what happened, and those files then get huge and cumbersome.
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>Most ports these days use all the cores you have,

They don't. There are a small number of ports only that are able to build in parallel. It's a new knob in make.conf (since some weeks), but usually it's done via a whitelist (it's an ongoing project).
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I'll stand corected. Most of the ones *I* have installed seem to use multiple cores. Gnome does, for example.
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>Most of the ones *I* have installed seem to use multiple cores.

Yes but take a closer look, they aren't compiling with -jx. You're just seeing the use of multiple cores because the scheduler allocates some tasks like disk io etc. to different cores. Firefox, QT, GTK, OO etc. are on the agenda - but tests take a long time.

And guess why? See for example icu:

http://www.freshports.org/devel/icu/

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Disable the parallelized building. It seems, there are races hidden in
the vendor's makefiles.


Those (like myself), for whom the parallel build just worked, can simply
use the new whitelist functionality of the ports system.
So it's a work in process and I don't think Gnome is ready for it. But I don't know, it's a rather 'early project'.

[edit] http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pav/2009...-for-everyone/

Multi processor compilations for everyone
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Yes but take a closer look, they aren't compiling with -jx.
That may be, but I noted that portupgrades of Gnome after the announcement (for parallel ports builds) my computer idle time dropped to 5% (according to top) when before it was about 50%. Build times went down too. That's more than disk buffering, I'd think.
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I'm not a Gnome user, but to be sure just take a look at the makefiles - there should be something like this MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=yes. Firefox3 e.g. is parallel safe, OpenOffice for example isn't until now.
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Well some do, and most don't. Clearly I looked at top only when the parallel build upgrades were taking place. You can also feel it -- an idle time of 5% is sure different than 50%.
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Well I hope so, I have to install Gnome for some friend :-)
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I hope you have either a decent CPU or some patience! My set-up unfortunately requires the latter.
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