On 2020/04/26 18:04, f.holop wrote:
> Stuart Henderson - Sun, 26 April 2020 at 16:29:30
> > On 2020/04/26 16:42, f.holop wrote:
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > i am having difficulties understanding this sentence, could someone
> > > help me out?
> > >
> > >
> > > FETCH_PACKAGES
> > > If set, try to use as options to pkg_add(1) to install
> > > the
> > > missing packages from PKG_PATH. For instance:
> > >
> > > make FETCH_PACKAGES=
> > >
> > > -f
> > > --
> > >
> >
> > If set, even to an empty string) rather than building missing
> > dependencies from source, pkg_add(1) will be called to install missing
> > packages from PKGPATH.
> >
> > If not an empty string, it will be called as "pkg_add ${FETCH_PACKAGES}"
> > which is useful in some niche cases.
>
> thank you for the explanations. i am afraid none of this comes across
> really from the man page as it is formulated now. but i am not a native
> speaker, true.
it doesn't come across at all. diffs welcome ;)
> i roughly parse it as: "if you want to pass parameters to pkg_add, set
> this to something." and then there is a (unexplained example) of
> passing nothing...
>
> while it's main function is really to stop `make build` going recursive
> and all ballistic building every single needed thing not installed atm
> as a package... (which is rarely what a single port job needs)
>
> -f
> --
>
