From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 8:35: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66F7737B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 08:34:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BC5543ED8 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 08:34:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by mail.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0MGaBko002061; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:36:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E2EC821.4070803@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:34:41 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David.Bear@asu.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: to make or add a package References: <20030122091717.C6226@asu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 David Bear wrote: > I'm very impressed with the ports collection. > > I have found there are two was to install a port, through pkg_add or the make. > I was wondering that if a port were a make, if the compiler would do any optimizations > on the final executable, therefore giving me a faster/smaller/whatever application. > Maybe there would be no significant difference. But, if I have the time to wait, is it worth it? > [Please wrap lines at a reasonable length] I think the man page for make.conf will tell you what you need to know. man make.conf Additional, many ports have customizations that can be done to include/omit optional parts of the port. This is a port-by-port situation, and each port is different. Usually, looking at the Makefile for the particular port will tell you what you need to know. If this doesn't answer your questions, please post again. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message