From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 20:44:02 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EBAE16A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:44:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from top.daemonsecurity.com (FW-182-254.go.retevision.es [62.174.254.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBF7D43D48 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:44:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [192.168.0.32] (charm.daemonsecurity.com [192.168.0.32]) by top.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B44FD01F; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:43:59 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <420FBC0B.9030805@locolomo.org> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:43:55 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050127 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, da, it, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Schmehl References: <007501c511b8$2d9fcff0$6401a8c0@GRANT> <420F34E6.6020108@locolomo.org> <020801c511f5$e4f55430$7702a8c0@officeeagle> In-Reply-To: <020801c511f5$e4f55430$7702a8c0@officeeagle> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Grant Peel cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:44:02 -0000 Paul Schmehl wrote: >> Till then, you'll have to look in the Makefile, there are typically a >> lot of WITH_ or WITHOUT_ options. When posible, I recommend installing >> with default options and configure those options manually, otherwise, >> remember to save your custom options somewhere. It makes upgrade easier. >> > I can't believe you said this and got away with it. You can save your > make options in /etc/make.conf and never have to mess with them again, > unless you decide to change your install for some reason. See the > following posts, for example... Sorry did I get away with it? all those posts are before I subscribed - sorry again, should I check the archive before answering? Taking an arbitrary post, it appears that make.conf is not always the best place since this sets options globally. But thanks, I have now learned how to get my ports compiled with support for a4 paper and _not_ letter :-) Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2