From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 8:35: 3 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 88D1C37B405 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 08:35:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from globalit.internetx.de (globalit.internetx.de [62.116.147.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6141A43F3F for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 08:34:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from H@Schmalzbauer.de) Received: from hscpr (ppp-62-245-162-107.mnet-online.de [62.245.162.107]) (authenticated bits=0) by globalit.internetx.de (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0MGYgBO019856; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:34:42 +0100 From: "Harald Schmalzbauer" To: , Subject: RE: to make or add a package Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:34:45 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20030122091717.C6226@asu.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal 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 owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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? Look at /etc/defaults/make.conf. There you can set some compiler options. Just copy the changes to /etc/make.conf. With 5.0 the directory is /usr/shaer/examples/etc/make.conf. Also copy the neccesary lines to /etc/make.conf. Best regards, -Harry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message