Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 18:39:26 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> Cc: questions at FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Changing Make options duing port installation? Message-ID: <20020203173925.GA20446@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20020203112402.A7291@sheol.localdomain> References: <20020203112402.A7291@sheol.localdomain>
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On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:24:02AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote:
> Hello All.
>
> How does one change the make options and parameters during the installation
> of any one port?
Depends on the port.
>
> An example: The mutt port disables SSL-encryption ('mutt -v' reports
> "-USE_SSL"). The skeletons in /usr/ports/mail/mutt reference a Makefile
> (and/or config.h?) variable "WITH_SSL" which governs the build.
It is a 'make' variable.
>
> I would like SSL-encrypted POP in mutt. Assuming (yeah, I know...) that
> "WITH_SSL" does this (and nothing else?), can one either pass a parameter
> to 'make' (like "CCOPTIONS=... make", or somesuch), or hack the variable
> into one of the skeleton files?
You pass a parameter to 'make' like this:
cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt
make WITH_SSL=yes install
And that's it. Easy, wasn't it. :-)
>
> The first would be the most convenient, but if the latter is the way to
> go, is there a "standard" or "uniform" place to add such things, or some
> established methodology?
>
> If this has been covered before, sorry. I couldn't find anything relevant
> in the Handbook.
--
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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se
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