From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 31 13:19:20 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 17D5537B401 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:19:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.103.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9946E43E77 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:19:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (localhost.caltech.edu [127.0.0.1]) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9VLJG3v044719; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:19:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g9VLJGIZ044718; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:19:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:19:16 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt To: Soren Harward Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing build options for ports Message-ID: <20021031211916.GA44660@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <20021031211337.GA24478@tmmc.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021031211337.GA24478@tmmc.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:13:37PM -0700, Soren Harward wrote: > "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? make -DWITHOUT_X11 For pararmeters whose value is important, say something like: make PREFIX=/opt -- Matthew Hunt * Salvage, like other forms of virtue, is http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * its own reward. -George Reamerstaff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message