On Monday 12 November 2007 17:48, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 03:26:00PM +0000, Ashley Moran wrote: >> I've lost count of the number of times I've come back to a big >> install to find it hanging on a config screen. Possibly I'm missing >> something. [snip] >> What is the best way to pre-configure GUI-configured ports? For example, >> if I want to script an installation of several ports. > > 'make config-recursive' to pop up all the config-dialogs before you > start building[...]
I discovered this recently. My big irritation, having decent bandwidth at work and a dialup at home, was fetching ``all'' the required sources for an overnight build on my laptop, finding in the morning that a dialog had popped up during the night and stopped the build, selecting a non-standard option and restarting only to find that it brought in a bunch more dependencies - over my phone line. I now run make config-recursive repeatedly until dialogs stop appearing, then fetch, then build. This recently cut down a build of X.org and KDE from a week (wall time) to less than 24 hours - from memory I ran make config-recursive three or four times on x11/kde3 alone. (Oh, I also got ADSL which helped with the downloads). Jonathan _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
