FreeBSD Ports – Use Default Options When Compiling

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I am compiling a few ports on FreeBSD, however during the compiling process I am often greeted with options for the dependencies of the port. This causes the compiling process to pause until I select (or in 9/10 cases, just leave the defaults) "OK". This is inconvenient because the compiling process is often long, I would like to walk away from the computer and not worry about having to select options.

I am wondering if there is an argument or compiler flag I can use to automatically use all defaults for dependencies of the port that I am compiling.

I tried to research this, but most likely I was not using the correct terminology in my queries.

Best Answer

The best option (IMHO) is to set all the options at the very start. You can do this by running make config-recursive.

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FreeBSD Ports: How to see all dependencies for a port, and all subdependencies for those dependencies

You are very close. Try this instead:

make all-depends-list

That will recurse through all dependencies and print them for you. To test different build scenarios and how they affect the dependency list, try things like:

make NOPORTDOCS=yes NOPORTEXAMPLES=yes all-depends-list

make WITHOUT_X11=yes all-depends-list

Here is the full set of dependency print targets:

all-depends-list
build-depends-list
run-depends-list
package-depends-list
pretty-print-build-depends-list
pretty-print-run-depends-list

Cheers, Greg

FreeBSD ports: remove build dependencies after installing port

My suggestion would be pkg_cutleaves (available in the ports collection), or pkg-orphan -- Both of these do the same basic thing (list packages that aren't referred to as a dependency by any other package, and ask you what to do).

I wouldn't bother though: The build dependencies will just have to be rebuilt and reinstalled when you upgrade the port, and they generally don't take up huge amounts of room. Leaving them won't hurt you unless your system is severely disk-space constrained.

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