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From: Gardner Bell <gbell72@rogers.com>
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Subject: Re: Keep compile options through upgrade
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 12:34:13AM +0100 Olivier Certner wrote:
>  Hello all,
> 
>  Is there an easy way to keep/retrieve the options last used to compile a 
> given port? This could be used with portupgrade to upgrade to a newer version 
> while retaining the previous build-time configuration (of course this won't 
> work if the options available change).
> 
You can use the MAKE_ARGS option in pkgtools.conf.  It allows you to
use multiple arguments for each port that you wish to build.