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Date:      Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:08:16 -0700
From:      Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org>
To:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   configure tweaks for Makefile generation?
Message-ID:  <5099C290.2070203@dreamchaser.org>

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I'm confused about tweaking a Makefile which is normally generated initially
using ./configure.

If one needs to define variables which affect the make process,
and a Makefile is generated initially using ./configure,
is the right thing to do simply to insert the define directly into the
Makefile, or is one supposed to define the variable in the environment
and rerun ./configure?

In other words, should the goal be to make configure generate an
appropriate Makefile, or is configure just used to get a starting point
for an appropriate Makefile, and the Makefile treated as the source
from that point on?

Thanks,

Gary



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