From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 9 11:18:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (ip-46-094.guate.net [200.12.46.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7621315616 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:18:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obonilla@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu) Received: (from obonilla@localhost) by voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA74596; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 12:18:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from obonilla) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 12:18:11 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla To: Ken Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: yabq Message-ID: <19990709121810.A74264@fisicc-ufm.edu> References: <3.0.6.32.19990709090936.00802a30@pop.bois.uswest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990709090936.00802a30@pop.bois.uswest.net>; from Ken on Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:09:36AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 09:09:36AM -0600, Ken wrote: > yabq: yet another boneheaded question.... > > I was checking out the tripwire port the other day and wanted to make with > floppy option, so I did; > > make TRIPWIRE_FLOPPY=YES > make install > > Just like I always do when I want to specify non default options like > USA_RESIDENT, etc. However, in this case the floppy wasn't written to > unless I included the floppy statement in my make install command as well. > Should I always be doing this? > It depends on the time the port requires the environment variable to be set. In the case of USA_RESIDENT it's used at fetch time, in the case of TRIPWIRE_FLOPPY it's used at install time. If you want to be sure, setenv the variable and then make or make install from the very begining (i.e. don't make; make install as make install implies make) regards, -Oscar -- For PGP Public Key: finger obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message