From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 12 22:49: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta01.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta01.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F1A37B41B for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:48:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.66.104]) by mta01.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20011113064854.OFCA100.mta01.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au>; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:48:54 +1100 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011113174628.01f3a730@pop.ozemail.com.au> X-Sender: rbyrnes@pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: I wish it was Linux Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:48:50 +1100 To: Edwin Groothuis From: Rob B Subject: Re: make options Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20011113174042.D684@k7.mavetju.org> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011113162621.03a51ec0@pop.ozemail.com.au> <5.1.0.14.2.20011113162621.03a51ec0@pop.ozemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 At 17:40 13/11/2001, Edwin Groothuis sent this up the stick: >On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 04:28:29PM +1100, Rob B wrote: > > When running make in, for example, /usr/ports/www/squid24, do I uncomment > > the variables in the Makefile or specify them on the command line? If I > > put them on the command line, what is the incantation? > >If you put them on the command-line, you will have to remember >yourself what they were for a next built. not so good >If you put them in the Makefile, you will have to remember yourself >what they were because the Makefile gets overwritten when you do >a cvsup. not so good. >Putting them in /etc/make.conf would be a good idea, it also gives >you some space for documentation. Would this mean that the /etc/make.conf file would get huge? I mean, most ports are fine with the defaults, but if I have 6 or 7 ports that I need to modify, wouldn't the makefile become rather large? Supposing I was to edit /etc/make.conf, how would I specify different options for different ports? Cheers and thanks, Rob -- There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is another great truth. [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian This is random quote 983 of a collection of 1185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message