From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 29 08:02:02 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 355A01065672 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:02:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9871E8FC12 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:02:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (pD9FBED0D.dip.t-dialin.net [217.251.237.13]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q2T7gxx8018764 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:43:00 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q2T7gndP019693 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:42:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q2T7ghMc070852 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:42:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201203290742.q2T7ghMc070852@fire.js.berklix.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:22:03 CDT." Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:42:43 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com 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: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:02:02 -0000 Mark Felder wrote: > My second suggestion is to please never ever ever mess with CFLAGS on > FreeBSD. You can get away with it on some Linux distros, but FreeBSD > strongly discourages it. Not true. eg I've set various CFLAGS for years. What FreeBSD requires is if one sets either CFLAGS or env vars then experiences problems, one should Unset them & try again before reporting bugs. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/