FreeBSD port missing configure option(s)

[David Abrahams <da...@boost-consulting.com>]

I'm not an expert in BSD, but this can't be right: when installing
subversion it will not install any of the apache modules unless I
pass "WITH_MOD_DAV_SVN=yes" to make.  However make config reports no
user-configurable options, and the only way I discovered
WITH_MOD_DAV_SVN was by crawling the makefile and googling.

Normally when I build a port it takes me through a text-mode dialog
that allows me to configure options like this one (albeit usually
lacking in useful explanation).  Shouldn't that be happening here,
too?

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com

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Re: FreeBSD port missing configure option(s)

[Nik Clayton <ni...@ngo.org.uk>]

David Abrahams wrote:
> I'm not an expert in BSD, but this can't be right: when installing
> subversion it will not install any of the apache modules unless I
> pass "WITH_MOD_DAV_SVN=yes" to make.  However make config reports no
> user-configurable options, and the only way I discovered
> WITH_MOD_DAV_SVN was by crawling the makefile and googling.
> 
> Normally when I build a port it takes me through a text-mode dialog
> that allows me to configure options like this one (albeit usually
> lacking in useful explanation).  Shouldn't that be happening here,
> too?

Yes, but it's up the person that maintains the port to add the necessary 
configuration information to the Makefile.

In this case, the port maintainer (lev@freebsd.org) needs to add an 
appropriately defined OPTIONS variable (as described at 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-options.html) 
to enable this.

Your best bet is to contact lev, and either ask them to do this, or send 
them a patch that does it.

Hope that helps,

N

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