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authorrillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org>2019-05-04 08:43:06 +0000
committerrillig <rillig@pkgsrc.org>2019-05-04 08:43:06 +0000
commitcb6d385f6a866600bdc838781196be52ff398fbf (patch)
treea5dd664be00bd6a7ca1444298449af79e4abd088
parenta30862a00020b7080c9be74753df6b1058796d31 (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-cb6d385f6a866600bdc838781196be52ff398fbf.tar.gz
mk/configure: document how to fix GNU_CONFIGURE_STRICT failures
-rw-r--r--mk/configure/gnu-configure.mk11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mk/configure/gnu-configure.mk b/mk/configure/gnu-configure.mk
index db863adfd49..ebbbec4b78d 100644
--- a/mk/configure/gnu-configure.mk
+++ b/mk/configure/gnu-configure.mk
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: gnu-configure.mk,v 1.19 2019/04/20 16:32:42 rillig Exp $
+# $NetBSD: gnu-configure.mk,v 1.20 2019/05/04 08:43:06 rillig Exp $
#
# Package-settable variables:
#
@@ -13,8 +13,17 @@
# Whether unknown --enable/--disable/--with/--without options make
# the package fail immediately.
#
+# When this check fails, inspect the configure script using "bmake
+# configure-help" and adjust the CONFIGURE_ARGS accordingly.
+# Inspect whether the configure script runs embedded configure
+# scripts from subdirectories. In that case, some of the
+# sub-configure scripts may need the options and some may not know
+# them at all.
+#
# Possible: yes no
# Default: no
+#
+# Keywords: configure configure_args gnu
_VARGROUPS+= gnu-configure
_USER_VARS.gnu-configure= # none