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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 17:44:23 +0530
From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 08:53:23 +0100, Matthew Seaman
<m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 08:57:12AM +0530, Subhro wrote:
> > Well first of all if you are someone who had recently stepped into the
> > FreeBSD world then you should NOT be using Beta software. Coming back
> > to your point the command you should be using is
> > make -DWITHOUT_JAVA=yes
> 
> I'm sorry, but that is completely bogus.  The syntax of setting
> variables on the make(1) command line is either:
> 
>    make -DFOO
> 
> or
> 
>    make FOO=bar
> 
> where the first option sets the value of FOO to 1.  The OP's problem
> is that he's trying to set a variable for which there is no support in
> the port's Makefile.
> 
>        Cheers,
> 
>        Matthew
> 
> --
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> 
> 

Thanks for correcting me Matthew. But I guess u could have been a a
little more polite. Anyway thanks again. I will make a note of what
you said.

Regards
S.

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Subhro Sankha Kar
School of Information Technology
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