According to ports(7),
gen Recreate configure machinery if needed, mainly used by
GNU based software that wants autogen/autoconf/automake.
It doesn't seem to work for me.
The example is a (github-tag-produced) tar.gz of libsndfile 1.1.0
which does not contain ./configure; the actual port (just updated)
uses .tar.xz and cmake, it's just an example.
With the Makefile below (try it):
$ make fetch
===> Checking files for libsndfile-1.1.0
`/usr/ports/distfiles/libsndfile-1.1.0.tar.gz' is up to date.
$ tar tzf /usr/ports/distfiles/libsndfile-1.1.0.tar.gz | grep configure
libsndfile-1.1.0/Scripts/android-configure.sh
libsndfile-1.1.0/Scripts/asan-configure.sh
libsndfile-1.1.0/Scripts/linux-to-win-cross-configure.sh
libsndfile-1.1.0/configure.ac
$ make gen
===> Checking files for libsndfile-1.1.0
`/usr/ports/distfiles/libsndfile-1.1.0.tar.gz' is up to date.
>> (SHA256) libsndfile-1.1.0.tar.gz: OK
===> libsndfile-1.1.0 depends on: flac-* -> flac-1.4.2
===> libsndfile-1.1.0 depends on: lame-* -> lame-3.100p1
===> libsndfile-1.1.0 depends on: libogg-* -> libogg-1.3.5
===> libsndfile-1.1.0 depends on: libvorbis-* -> libvorbis-1.3.7
===> libsndfile-1.1.0 depends on: mpg123-* -> mpg123-1.31.0
===> libsndfile-1.1.0 depends on: opus-* -> opus-1.3.1
===> Verifying specs: FLAC c m mp3lame mpg123 ogg opus sndio vorbis vorbisenc
===> found FLAC.13.0 c.96.4 m.10.1 mp3lame.2.2 mpg123.7.2 ogg.6.2 opus.1.3
sndio.7.2 vorbis.9.0 vorbisenc.3.1
===> Extracting for libsndfile-1.1.0
===> Patching for libsndfile-1.1.0
===> Compiler link: clang -> /usr/bin/clang
===> Compiler link: clang++ -> /usr/bin/clang++
===> Compiler link: cc -> /usr/bin/cc
===> Compiler link: c++ -> /usr/bin/c++
===> Generating configure for libsndfile-1.1.0
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
$ make configure
===> Configuring for libsndfile-1.1.0
Using /usr/ports/pobj/libsndfile-1.1.0/config.site (generated)
env: ./configure: No such file or directory
Indeed, no ./configure file was created in WRKSRC.
Is there an example of a port where make gen is actualy used?
Jan
COMMENT= library to handle various audio file formats
GH_ACCOUNT= libsndfile
GH_PROJECT= libsndfile
GH_TAGNAME= 1.1.0
CATEGORIES= audio
HOMEPAGE= https://libsndfile.github.io/libsndfile/
MAINTAINER= Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz>
SHARED_LIBS += sndfile 7.0 # .1.28
# LGPLv2.1
PERMIT_PACKAGE= Yes
WANTLIB= FLAC c m mp3lame mpg123 ogg opus sndio vorbis vorbisenc
CONFIGURE_STYLE=gnu
LIB_DEPENDS= audio/flac \
audio/lame \
audio/libogg \
audio/libvorbis \
audio/mpg123 \
audio/opus
NO_TEST= Yes
.include <bsd.port.mk>
