Re: Nvidia issue with CURRENT

From: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 00:54:07 +0200
On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 08:19:25 -0700
Kevin Oberman <rkoberman_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:53 AM, Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp_at_freebsd.org>
>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 09:00:33 +0200
>> "O. Hartmann" <ohartmann_at_walstatt.org> wrote:
>>  
>> >In /etc/src.conf , therefore you should add something similar to
>> >(like I added to mine):
>> >
>> >PORTS_MODULES=
>> >PORTS_MODULES+=                         x11/nvidia-driver
>> >PORTS_MODULES+=
>> >emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod  
>>
>> Shouldn't it go into make.conf(5)? That's what the manual suggests.
>>  
>
>Ans the man page should be fixed. By putting it into make.conf, it
>pollutes the environment  of ever make(1) run on the system. (Yes,
>unlikely to ever cause a problem,)
>
>In src.conf it only impacts the builds of the system and ports. This
>is why src.conf was created a few years ago. In fact, it was
>originally supposed to only impact the build of the system, but the
>ports Mk files were modified to pull it in, to, much to my annoyance.
>I liked being able to modify compile options just for the system
>without them breaking ports builds.
>
>Simple rule... any definition used by make(1) only for system builds
>belongs in /etc/sec.conf.

Done, I've added this information to make.conf(5). Now it's waiting for
a review. 

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15177

Thanks!

Mateusz
Received on Mon Apr 23 2018 - 20:53:22 UTC

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