From owner-freebsd-ports Wed May 8 16:58:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from host217-41-52-202.in-addr.btopenworld.com (host217-41-52-202.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.41.52.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88E7E37B41B for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 16:58:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by host217-41-52-202.in-addr.btopenworld.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 88BC7416; Thu, 9 May 2002 00:58:24 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 00:58:24 +0100 From: Dominic Marks To: David Preece Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pro's, advanced use and some general ports confusion. Message-ID: <20020509005824.A63710@host217-41-52-202.in-addr.btope> References: <20020509114909.B40CA1E47CC@smtp-1.paradise.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020509114909.B40CA1E47CC@smtp-1.paradise.net.nz>; from davep@zedkep.com on Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:48:06AM +1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:48:06AM +1200, David Preece wrote: > I've been using FreeBSD for around two-three years, ish, have recently > started playing with other unixen (notably Debian) and have got to wondering > why, exactly, building from source is a good idea? Is it because we can get > over some library versioning problems? There are lots of pros and cons. More than I am going to list, so I'll just avoid this part. > There are other advantages that I would have thought a no-brainer to add to > the ports collection that I can't find any documentation on. For instance, is > it possible to build a port for only the 586 instruction set? Can we change CPUTYPE, look in /etc/defaults/make.conf. > the optimisation level on gcc when we're building from scratch? Perhaps use a > different compiler? Is there a way I can add a global list of extra locations > where the distfiles may be located - a local FTP server for instance? Since Packages and distfiles are available on most FreeBSD FTP sites. > all ports can be turned into packages with 'make package', why do there > appear to be far fewer packages than ports? Try building and distributing almost 7000 applications in a state of constant development some time. :) > And if all this can be done, where's the doc :) > > Apologies for my weak grip on English today, one of those things. > > Cheers, > Dave > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message -- Dominic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message