From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 8:28:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E5F237B40A for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:28:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 446FBBC8D; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:28:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA11631; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:28:15 -0700 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9FFRIE34235; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:27:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Erik Sabowski , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports vs. packages References: <20011014173546.A1244@xor.obsecurity.org> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 15 Oct 2001 08:27:17 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20011014173546.A1244@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway writes: > If you want to enable optional settings in the port, you have no > choice. If you insist on adding local CFLAGS customizations, you have > no choice. Otherwise the only real benefit to using ports is the warm > fuzzy you get from having compiled the software on your own machine. I thought that another (small) benefit was that the programs would be compiled for your Athlon or Pentium or 486 instead of for a 386. Ports give that benefit without changing CFLAGS, right? IIRC, the only thing the beginners docs (handbook?) suggested for CFLAGS is "-O -pipe". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message