From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 28 17:35:24 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45B44106566C for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:35:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from icemaca@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C371A8FC17 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:35:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjc3 with SMTP id jc3so1555615bkc.13 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:35:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=cKfxDkrbwmAR/89f5CSsQawdOb47yMEnzudldxcfuRg=; b=ihWkupZ4Eup0w38sGoV9t2mQqGMfW97KzqLTeobvOnOZD2GsYBIjAtE1+1sWqqSwIF RrCanz0QtIw8TTK6UAzKHUvvfVamRWt4WJXrATE+XesQ4HM6Ft95DdaaKotQZZEkmGkp j9valr7a8FbwGucpPpOMV/y0R+uPI4xn6k+jQQI2IJSBOwRzYw+Nqx6sqmxc4zt6JcO/ zu97Eqm7p5WqS4m/NKEcyVgrjLsyNm5kOr7QHcfbdkpVhdspKu7YfyUte38RZDD+bVob laY/U8KMX03/wbN9AZ4xVRMR62ZnJ1tBPqtt5uU0qKCGWGMlR1mKxKY7ew/7qJFhkmot UOXw== Received: by 10.204.12.10 with SMTP id v10mr2961923bkv.1.1332956122567; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:35:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.102] ([85.232.210.115]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id jr13sm8055974bkb.14.2012.03.28.10.35.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:35:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F734BD7.8090607@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:35:19 +0200 From: icemac User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111228 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F731B60.7020207@gmail.com> <4F7322E8.1040502@gmail.com> <4F7341E1.8010407@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4F7341E1.8010407@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: need info builing ports properly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:35:24 -0000 On 03/28/12 18:52, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 28/03/2012 15:40, icemac wrote: >> At the moment my /etc/make.conf just has 1 line with the Perl version >> entry, should i always leave cflags out? > I think that not setting CLFAGS would be sensible. There's plenty of > other stuff you can fiddle with in /etc/make.conf or /etc/src.conf if > that's what interests you. OTOH, the default settings are pretty good > and leaving well alone will help you get a put together a stable and > reliable system without excessive pain. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > Ok, i get it now thanks to these replies. I wasn't after fiddling or optimizing much and just want to to build ports i need and have them as reliable and stable as possibile, but i misunderstood the function of that setting in make.conf. I actually had thought that that was required and in turn assumed, ( in retrospect) , that the defaults would be more aggressive and that that setting would restrict any wild optimization. also didnt realize it was an override to all. thanks. p.s. So this was probably the reason for my flakey setups?