From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 19 17:23:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14B1D16A404 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:23:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F165513C455 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:23:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay6.apple.com (relay6.apple.com [17.128.113.36]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l3JHNUwR025344; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:23:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay6.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay6.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 75CC4100F3; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:23:30 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807124-9f57abb0000007e5-54-4627a5923279 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay6.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 649D1100C7; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:23:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200704190439.52800.david@vizion2000.net> References: <200704190439.52800.david@vizion2000.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:23:29 -0700 To: David Southwell X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make Options -- just checking X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:23:31 -0000 On Apr 19, 2007, at 4:39 AM, David Southwell wrote: > In my current state of confusion I need to double check the way in > which > options are given for make before delving deeper into the problem. > if there > is an option define as: > > '--with-abc=def' > > what is the correct command line? > > #[correct command-line] > > for > #make > & for > #make configure Arguments of the form "--with-abc=def" are typically fed to configure, not to make. If you are using ports to build the software in question, you would adjust the port Makefile to include the extra option by changing the CONFIGURE_ARGS. If you are building by hand, you would run "./configure --with-abc=def". -- -Chuck