Re: Postgresql 7.1 make error

[Marc Espie <espie@schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr>]

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:00:59PM +0200, Olivier Cherrier wrote:
> As we can see in the configure command, I want to build the following
> modules
> --enable-locale
> --with-tcl
> --with-perl
> --with-openssl
> --enable-odbc
> --with-CXX
> --enable-syslog
> 
> Installing postgresql by ports/databases would not install theses modules;
> would it ?

You're definitely not up-to-date on what ports can do. :)

See the existing flavors for postgresql.

In general, if you don't find all the options you may want in the port,
you can probably get very good results by asking here for those options.

If you really, really want to recompile from source, go ahead. But you
are reinventing the wheel, as people spent already quite a few hours
figuring most of that stuff out.

> In the ports man page, I see that the INTERACTIVE environnement variable
> could maybe generate query during configuration. Is it right ?

Nope, it's somewhat of a confusion. IS_INTERACTIVE may be set if the port
will ask questions during configuration. As a rule, we don't like those
ports, as they can't be packaged reliably for obvious reasons.

We much prefer FLAVORS for boolean settings.  Other kinds of settings are 
another issue. The preferred way involves postponing hard questions until 
the actual pkg_add stage.