This is a text-only version of the following page on https://raymii.org: --- Title : FreeBSD Ports: remove config options Author : Remy van Elst Date : 09-04-2014 URL : https://raymii.org/s/blog/FreeBSD_Ports_remove_config_options.html Format : Markdown/HTML --- Today I wanted to upgrade a few packages on one of my FreeBSD servers. The vim port kept complaining: [root@vps4 /usr/ports/editors/vim]# make reinstall clean ===> Options unchanged ====> You must select one and only one option from the UI single Config is invalid. Re-edit? [Y/n] Y ===> Options unchanged ====> You must select one and only one option from the UI single Config is invalid. Re-edit? [Y/n] n It also did it with `make config` or `make clean`.

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This is because the UI settings changed for vim, as `make showconfig` shows: [root@vps4 /usr/ports/editors/vim]# make showconfig ===> The following configuration options are available for vim-7.4.229_1: CSCOPE=off: cscope support EXUBERANT_CTAGS=off: Use exctags instead of ctags LUA=off: Lua scripting language support NLS=off: Native Language Support PERL=off: Perl scripting language support PYTHON=off: Python bindings or support RUBY=off: Ruby bindings or support TCL=off: Tcl scripting language support XTERM_SAVE=off: Restore xterm screen after exit ====> User interface: you have to select exactly one of them ATHENA=off: Athena GUI toolkit CONSOLE=off: Console/terminal mode GNOME=off: GNOME desktop environment support GTK2=off: GTK+ 2 GUI toolkit support MOTIF=off: Motif widget library support X11=off: X11 (graphics) support Digging through the [FreeBSD Handbook][2], in section "5.5.1.1. Customizing Ports Installation" we find the following little snippet: > There are several ways to revisit a port's build options menu in order to add, remove, or change these options after a port has been built. One method is to cd into the directory containing the port and type make config. Another option is to use make showconfig. Another option is to execute make rmconfig which will remove all selected options and allow you to start over. All of these options, and others, are explained in great detail in ports(7). And as such, after `make rmconfig` and a new `make config-recursive` the upgrade worked. [1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=7435ae6b8212 [2]: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/book.html#ports-using --- License: All the text on this website is free as in freedom unless stated otherwise. This means you can use it in any way you want, you can copy it, change it the way you like and republish it, as long as you release the (modified) content under the same license to give others the same freedoms you've got and place my name and a link to this site with the article as source. This site uses Google Analytics for statistics and Google Adwords for advertisements. You are tracked and Google knows everything about you. Use an adblocker like ublock-origin if you don't want it. All the code on this website is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 license unless already licensed under a license which does not allows this form of licensing or if another license is stated on that page / in that software: This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . Just to be clear, the information on this website is for meant for educational purposes and you use it at your own risk. I do not take responsibility if you screw something up. Use common sense, do not 'rm -rf /' as root for example. If you have any questions then do not hesitate to contact me. See https://raymii.org/s/static/About.html for details.