Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 16:16:33 -0500 From: Michael Joyner <mjoyner2@hq.dyns.cx> To: Soren Harward <soren@et.byu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing build options for ports Message-ID: <1036098993.3dc19db17f2a7@imp.hq.dyns.cx> In-Reply-To: <20021031211337.GA24478@tmmc.dyndns.org> References: <20021031211337.GA24478@tmmc.dyndns.org>
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you can usually set compile time options in the environment before invoking make i.e. export WITHOUT_X11=true make Quoting Soren Harward <soren@et.byu.edu>: > 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 > -- FreeBSD System Administrator http://manhattan.hq.dyns.cx/ ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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