From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 31 13:13:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C6A37B401 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:13:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from tmmc.dyndns.org (12-254-249-71.client.attbi.com [12.254.249.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96E3543E42 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:13:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from soren@tmmc.dyndns.org) Received: (qmail 25785 invoked by uid 1001); 31 Oct 2002 21:13:37 -0000 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:13:37 -0700 From: Soren Harward To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: changing build options for ports Message-ID: <20021031211337.GA24478@tmmc.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-URL: http://tmmc.dyndns.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was trying to build VIM on my webserver, and it started to build the X version, downloading all the X libraries, etc. This is a lights out machine, so I didn't want X on it, so I killed the build. I eventually figured out that by putting: WITHOUT_X11=1 somewhere near the beginning of my Makefile, I could force it to build w/o X11 support. With my new-found power, I began to tweak other build-time configuration options with other ports. But then I thought, "you know, theres gotta be a better way to set these options than editing the Makefile". What is the "best common practice" to set these options? -- Soren Harward soren@byu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message