From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 26 23:55:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA03834 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:55:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA03828 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:55:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA16027; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:55:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:55:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Greg Pavelcak cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Optimizing Compile of Ports In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Greg Pavelcak wrote: > I've been installing ports lately instead of packages just for the > heck of it. Compile optimizations seem to be out of my control with > ports. Ilooked in /etc/make.conf /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk and the > individual make files associated with ports and I don't see anything > about compile options. Am I missing something, or is this just the > way it is? (It's probably a good idea to keep me from messing with > this stuff anyway.) The ports do assume a standard set of compile-time options. If you want to tweak them just before the build starts, you can run ``make configure'', which will fetch, extract, patch, and configure everything but stop before the make is started. See /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk line 220-ish for the standard target list. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major