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Some core modules are a single word, all other modules should be ${PKGPATH}. If the module is .Pa some/dir/portname , the ports framework will look for a file named .Pa ${PORTSDIR}/some/dir/portname/portname.port.mk and include it. .Pp Most modules should conform to this syntax. The historic practice of having a redirection file directly under .Pa ${PORTSDIR}/infrastructure/mk is deprecated for new modules. .Pp Modules may refer to each other. The modules mechanism has specific recursion handling such that adding .Li MODULES += foo/bar to a module will work as expected. .Sh NAMING CONVENTIONS Since there is no actual scope in makefiles, everything defined within a module will be global to the ports framework, and thus may interfere with other ports. .Pp As far as possible, all variables and targets belonging to a module named .Pa some/dir/foo should be named .Ev MODFOO_* and .Ar modfoo_* . .Pp Following the same conventions as .Xr bsd.port.mk 5 , internal variables and targets not intended for user consumption should be named .Ev _MODFOO_* and .Ar _modfoo_* . .Pp For instance, if a module wants some value to be available for the rest of the world, it should define .Ev MODFOO_VARNAME , with a name matching the basic infrastructure as far as possible. That is, a port that defines specific dependencies will usually define .Ev MODFOO_WANTLIB , .Ev MODFOO_LIB_DEPENDS , and .Ev MODFOO_RUN_DEPENDS , as appropriate. .Pp As an exception to the naming mechanism, some ports have several distinct versions in the ports tree, say .Pa x11/qt2 , .Pa x11/qt3 , and .Pa x11/qt4 . Instead of using the namespace .Ev MODQT2* , variables will usually drop the version suffix and be simply called .Ev MODQT_* so that a port using the module can be switched from version to version without needing to change everything. .Pp It is highly desirable to define names in both namespaces for such ports, for example to define both .Ev MODQT3_LIB_DEPENDS and .Ev MODQT_LIB_DEPENDS . Normal client ports will use .Ev MODQT_LIB_DEPENDS , but a port may exceptionally import both modules with .Li MODULES += x11/qt3 x11/qt4 and differentiate between qt3 and qt4 needs with .Ev MODQT3_LIB_DEPENDS and .Ev MODQT4_LIB_DEPENDS . See .Pa print/poppler for an example. .Sh OVERRIDING TARGET BEHAVIOR The main framework contains several hooks that allow ports to override normal behavior. This evolved as an ad-hoc framework, where only hooks that turned out to be needed were added. If several modules define the same hook, hook behaviors will be invoked in sequence. .Bl -tag -width do-configure .It Ar patch There is a .Ar post-patch hook that can be activated by defining .Ev MODFOO_post-patch . It will be run right after .Ar post-patch and before .Ev REORDER_DEPENDENCIES touches things. .It Ar configure The normal .Ar do-configure behavior is to invoke all .Ev MODFOO_configure contents that are defined in .Ev CONFIGURE_STYLE . By default, .Ar configure will do nothing. Some .Ev CONFIGURE_STYLE values, namely perl, gnu, imake, automake, autoconf, and autoupdate will automatically import the correct module. User-defined modules must both add to .Ev CONFIGURE_STYLE and import the correct module to override behavior. Contrary to other hooks, module behavior is not invoked in addition to .Ar do-configure , but as the normal configure process. If .Ar do-configure is overridden, normal hook processing will not happen. .It Ar fake There is a .Ar pre-fake hook that can be activated by defining .Ev MODFOO_pre-fake . This will be invoked right after .Xr mtree 8 , and before the normal .Ar pre-fake behavior. .It Ar install There is a .Ar pre-install hook that can be activated by defining .Ev MODFOO_pre-install . It will be run right before installing the package with .Xr pkg_add 1 . .El .Sh OVERRIDING VARIABLE BEHAVIOR Some variables can be overridden by modules. Be very cautious, as this can make the module difficult to use, or interact badly with other modules. As a rule, always provide the override as: .Pp .Dl VARIABLE ?= value .Pp and provide a module-specific variable with the same value: .Pp .Dl MODFOO_VARIABLE = value . .Pp The following variables can be overridden in a relatively safe fashion: .Ev ALL_TARGET , .Ev CONFIGURE_SCRIPT , .Ev DESTDIRNAME , .Ev DIST_SUBDIR , .Ev DISTNAME , .Ev DISTFILES , .Ev EXTRACT_SUFX , .Ev FAKE_FLAGS , .Ev FETCH_MANUALLY , .Ev HOMEPAGE , .Ev IGNORE , .Ev IS_INTERACTIVE , .Ev LIBTOOL_FLAGS , .Ev MAKE_FILE , .Ev MASTER_SITES , .Ev MULTI_PACKAGES , .Ev NO_BUILD , .Ev NO_REGRESS , .Ev PATCH_LIST , .Ev PKG_ARCH , .Ev PKGNAME* , .Ev PREFIX , .Ev REGRESS_TARGET , .Ev REGRESS_IS_INTERACTIVE , .Ev REORDER_DEPENDENCIES , .Ev SEPARATE_BUILD , .Ev SHARED_ONLY , .Ev USE_GMAKE , .Ev USE_LIBTOOL , .Ev USE_MOTIF . .Pp The following variables can be added to in a relatively safe fashion: .Ev BUILD_DEPENDS , .Ev CATEGORIES , .Ev CONFIGURE_ARGS , .Ev CONFIGURE_ENV , .Ev ERRORS , .Ev FAKE_FLAGS , .Ev FLAVOR , .Ev FLAVORS , .Ev INSTALL_TARGET , .Ev LIB_DEPENDS , .Ev MAKE_ENV , .Ev MAKE_FLAGS , .Ev PKG_ARGS , .Ev PSEUDO_FLAVORS , .Ev REGRESS_DEPENDS , .Ev REORDER_DEPENDENCIES , .Ev RUN_DEPENDS , .Ev SUBST_VARS , .Ev WANTLIB . .Sh SPECIFIC MODULE INTERACTIONS Some modules correspond to extra ports that will be used mostly as .Ev BUILD_DEPENDS or .Ev RUN_DEPENDS . Such modules can safely append values directly to the .Ev BUILD_DEPENDS , .Ev RUN_DEPENDS , .Ev LIB_DEPENDS , and .Ev WANTLIB variables, as long as they also define module-specific variables for all runtime dependencies. .Pp Simple client ports will use the module directly, and thus inherit extra build and runtime dependencies. .Pp More sophisticated ports can use .Ev MULTI_PACKAGES to select specific behavior: build-time dependencies will always be needed. Runtime dependencies will be selected on a subpackage basis, since runtime dependencies such as .Ev LIB_DEPENDS-sub do not inherit the default .Ev LIB_DEPENDS value. The client port's author must only bear in mind that external modules may add values to the default .Ev WANTLIB , .Ev LIB_DEPENDS , and .Ev RUN_DEPENDS , and thus that it is not safe to inherit from it blindly. .Pp Modules are imported during .Pp .Dl .include .Pp Thus they can be affected by user choices such as setting a variable to Yes or No. Modules may make decisions based on documented .Ev MODFOO_BEHAVIOR values. .Pp When modules are processed, only a few .Xr bsd.port.mk 5 variables are already defined. Modules may depend upon the following variables already having a sane value: .Ev ARCH , .Ev DISTDIR , .Ev LOCALBASE , .Ev LP64_ARCHS , .Ev NO_DEPENDS , .Ev NO_SHARED_ARCHS , .Ev NO_SHARED_LIBS , .Ev PKGPATH , .Ev PORTSDIR , .Ev USE_X11 , .Ev X11BASE . Note that this is only relevant for tests. It is perfectly okay to define variables or targets that depend on the basic ports framework without having to care whether that variable is already defined, since .Xr make 1 performs lazy evaluation. .Sh CORE MODULES DOCUMENTATION The following modules are available. .Bl -tag -width do-configure .It apache-module .It converters/libiconv .It cpan For perl ports coming from CPAN. Wrapper around the normal perl module that fetches the file from the correct location depending on DISTNAME, and sets a default PKGNAME. Also affects REGRESS_DEPENDS, CONFIGURE_STYLE, PKG_ARCH, and CATEGORIES. .Pp Some CPAN modules are only indexed by author, set CPAN_AUTHOR=ID to locate the right directory. .Pp User settings: set CPAN_REPORT to Yes, CPAN_REPORT_DB to a valid directory, and CPAN_REPORT_FROM to a valid email adress to automate the reporting of regress tests to CPAN. .It devel/cmake .It devel/gettext .It devel/pmk Sets CONFIGURE_SCRIPT, CONFIGURE_ARGS and MODPMK_configure. It appends .Pa devel/pmk to BUILD_DEPENDS. .It devel/scons .It devel/waf Adds .Pa devel/waf to BUILD_DEPENDS, .Pa lang/python to MODULES, and provides do-configure, do-build, do-install and post-install targets. do-build, do-install and post-install can be overridden in the port Makefile. .It gcc3 If USE_GCC3=No (defined by .Pa /usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk ) , and architecture is in MODGCC3_ARCHES, then the gcc 3.3.6 compilers will be put at the front of the path. By default, only C language support is included by this module. If other languages are needed, they must be listed in MODGCC3_LANGS (e.g. c++, g77). .It gcc4 If USE_GCC4=No (the default), and architecture is in MODGCC4_ARCHES, then the gcc 4.2 compilers will be put at the front of the path. By default, only C language support is included by this module. If other languages are needed, they must be listed in MODGCC4_LANGS (e.g. c++, g77). .It gnu This module is documented in the main .Xr bsd.port.mk 5 manpage. .It imake This module is documented in the main .Xr bsd.port.mk 5 manpage. .It java Set MODJAVA_VER=x.y to use exactly the JDK x.y, MODJAVA_VER=x.y+ to use any x.y or higher version. Set MODJAVA_JRERUN=Yes if the port only needs the JRE at runtime. The module sets JAVA_HOME, ONLY_FOR_ARCHS, MODJAVA_RUN_DEPENDS, and appends to BUILD_DEPENDS and RUN_DEPENDS. It heeds NO_BUILD. .It lang/ghc Sets ONLY_FOR_ARCHS, MODGHC_VERSION, BUILD_DEPENDS, and RUN_DEPENDS. .It lang/lua Appends to RUN_DEPENDS and CATEGORIES. Also appends to BUILD_DEPENDS, unless NO_BUILD has been set to Yes. .It lang/mono .It lang/ocaml Sets OCAML_VERSION, MODOCAML_NATIVE. Appends to BUILD_DEPENDS and MAKE_ENV. This also selects a %%native%% plist fragment depending on whether the architecture supports native compilation or not. .It lang/python Sets MODPY_VERSION, MODPY_BIN, MODPY_INCDIR, MODPY_LIBDIR, MODPY_SITEPKG, MODPY_SETUP, MODPY_LIB_DEPENDS, MODPY_RUN_DEPENDS, MODPY_BUILD_DEPENDS. Appends to RUN_DEPENDS unless MODPY_RUNDEP is set to No. MODPY_VERSION is the default version used by all python modules. Ports which use the setuptools module should set MODPY_SETUPTOOLS to Yes. All ports that generate egg-info files should set MODPY_EGG_VERSION to the version string used by the port's setup.py setup() function. Extra arguments to the build and install commands can be passed via MODPY_DISTUTILS_BUILDARGS and MODPY_DISTUTILS_INSTALLARGS. Also affects CATEGORIES, MAKE_ENV, SHARED_ONLY, and SUBST_VARS. May affect the regress target. .It lang/ruby Sets MODRUBY_REV, RUBY, MODRUBY_RUN_DEPENDS, MODRUBY_LIB_DEPENDS, MODRUBY_LIBDIR, MODRUBY_DOCDIR, MODRUBY_EXAMPLEDIR, MODRUBY_ARCH. Appends to BUILD_DEPENDS, RUN_DEPENDS, CATEGORIES and SUBST_VARS. .It lang/tcl Sets MODTCL_VERSION, MODTCL_BIN, MODTCL_INCDIR, MODTCL_LIBDIR, MODTCL_BUILD_DEPENDS, MODTCL_RUN_DEPENDS, MODTCL_LIB_DEPENDS, and MODTCL_CONFIG. Also affects CATEGORIES and SUBST_VARS. .It perl This module is documented in the main .Xr bsd.port.mk 5 manpage. .It textproc/intltool Sets MODINTLTOOL_OVERRIDE. .Pa textproc/intltool is added to BUILD_DEPENDS. MODINTLTOOL_OVERRIDE changes the paths of INTLTOOL_EXTRACT, INTLTOOL_MERGE and INTLTOOL_UPDATE to use the installed versions of intltool-extract, intltool-merge and intltool-update, instead of the version's packages into the distfile of the port using this module. Also affects CONFIGURE_ENV, MAKE_ENV and MAKE_FLAGS by appending MODINTLTOOL_OVERRIDE to them. .It www/drupal5 .It www/pear .It www/plone .It www/zope .It x11/gnome Sets DESKTOP_FILES, EXTRACT_SUFX, MODGNOME_HELP_FILES, MODGNOME_RUN_DEPENDS, and USE_GMAKE. EXTRACT_SUFX defaults to .tar.bz2. Also affects CATEGORIES. If DESKTOP_FILES=Yes, a dependency on .Pa devel/desktop-file-utils is appended to MODGNOME_RUN_DEPENDS. If MODGNOME_HELP_FILES=Yes, then .Pa x11/gnome/yelp is appended to MODGNOME_RUN_DEPENDS. This option is to be used when .xml GNOME help files are installed into .Pa share/gnome/help/ . Unless NO_BUILD=Yes, USE_LIBTOOL is set to Yes and .Pa textproc/intltool is appended to MODULES. .Pp MASTER_SITES and DISTNAME are built using GNOME_PROJECT and GNOME_VERSION. .It x11/gnustep .It x11/kde .It x11/qt2 .It x11/qt3 .It x11/qt4 .It x11/tk Sets MODTK_VERSION, MODTK_BIN, MODTK_INCDIR, MODTK_LIBDIR, MODTK_BUILD_DEPENDS, MODTK_RUN_DEPENDS, MODTK_LIB_DEPENDS, and MODTK_CONFIG. Automatically adds the lang/tcl module, and affects CATEGORIES, SUBST_VARS, and USE_X11. .It x11/xfce4 Sets DIST_SUBDIR, EXTRACT_SUFX, CONFIGURE_STYLE, CONFIGURE_ENV, USE_X11 and USE_GMAKE. If DESKTOP_FILES is set to yes, it adds .Pa devel/desktop-file-utils to RUN_DEPENDS. Unless XFCE_NO_SRC is set, USE_LIBTOOL is set to yes and .Pa devel/gettext and .Pa textproc/intltool are added to MODULES. Also affects CATEGORIES. .Pp Xfce ports can be divided into three categories: core libraries and applications, goodies, and panel plugins. HOMEPAGE, MASTER_SITES and DISTNAME are built using XFCE_VERSION (which defaults to XFCE_DESKTOP_VERSION if not set) and either XFCE_PROJECT, XFCE_GOODIE or XFCE_PLUGIN. One of the latter has to be provided by the port Makefile. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr make 1 , .Xr bsd.port.mk 5 , .Xr ports 7