From d946d37417f9dfcd9c7dfba91210b70063f75001 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:37:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] - Add a brief note on the "developer mode" for porting
Requested by: bapt
---
en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.xml | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.xml
index 15fd8ed54c..5f2709929a 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.xml
@@ -125,6 +125,18 @@
too.</para>
</note>
+ <note>
+ <para>It is recommended to set the <makevar>DEVELOPER</makevar>
+ &man.make.1; variable in <filename>/etc/make.conf</filename>
+ before getting into porting.</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>echo DEVELOPER=yes >> /etc/make.conf</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>This setting enables the <quote>developer mode</quote> that
+ displays deprecation warnings and activates some further quality
+ checks on calling the <command>make</command> command.</para>
+ </note>
+
<sect1 id="porting-makefile">
<title>Writing the <filename>Makefile</filename></title>