On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 01:35:06AM -0600, Connor wrote:

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> Hi,

>

> I'm running 4.2-stable on i386 and was wanting to turn on some

> configuration options (for specific subpackages) that are turned off

> by default when one runs builds xenocara using the vanilla process in

> the /usr/src/xenocara/README file and the FAQ.

>

> I checked out the stable source for xenocara and it builds and

> installs successfully by following the usual procedure:

>

> # cd /usr/src/xenocara

> # make bootstrap

> # make obj

> # make build

>

> I made sure that I installed the additional GNU autotools packages

> that are listed in the README, and /usr/X11R6/bin is in my PATH .

>

> I have a specific example of something I'd like to modify: I'd really

> like to change some of the options for app/xterm, say to enable 256

> color support, which is turned off when doing the default build.

>

> If I were running the configure script manually I could do the

> following in app/xterm, for example:

>

> #cd /usr/src/xenocara/app/

> #sh configure --enable-256-color

>

> (which should enable that option)

>

> I'm not sure that that will get picked up properly when I do a make

> build though.

probably not.  and I doubt your example works as expected.  here's

the first cvs log entry for xenocara/app/xterm/Makefile
revision 1.1

date: 2007/04/09 19:11:43;  author: matthieu;  state: Exp;

BSD make based build infrastructure for xterm. The autoconf based

one was too painful to get working on landisk (static only).
so, xterm build doesn't even use configure ...
> What is the proper way to set things up so that the xenocara wrapper

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> scripts know to turn on those non-standard options?

>

> Any recommendations would be really appreciated.

three answers:
1) this isn't supported.  I mean, even ports don't allow you to

do stuff like this, because, well, you would be using a non-standard

build, which is untimately useless, if not actually detrimental, to

the project. that being said, there are a few build options for base

and xenocara, see mk.conf(5).
2) look at /usr/xenocara/share/mk/bsd.xorg.mk, particularly where

it's running configure.
3) as you can see in the xterm example, not everything in xenocara

uses configure.
> Thanks,

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>

> Connor

> 

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