Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:54:12 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO: run portupgrade with original options for perl5.8 Message-ID: <200610232354.14469.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <8cb6106e0610230923o73c5f2f6p8c1d79568d243fbe@mail.gmail.com> References: <200610231106.10504.lane@joeandlane.com> <8cb6106e0610230923o73c5f2f6p8c1d79568d243fbe@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 23 October 2006 17:23, Josh Carroll wrote:
> For ports without "make config" you can edit
> /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf and edit MAKE_ARGS, something like:
>
> MAKE_ARGS = {
> 'lang/perl5.8' => 'ENABLE_SUIDPERL=yes',
> }
>
> Of course, this only affects portupgrade/portinstall/etc. If you want
> it to work for manual building of the port with make in the port dir,
> you can alternatively edit /etc/make.conf and add something like:
>
> .if ${.CURDIR:M*/lang/perl5.8}
> ENABLE_SUIDPERL=yes
> .endif
There is also sysutils/portconf that abstracts this approach. Setting flags
in pkgtools.conf doesn't always work because sometimes a port will be
installed as a side-effect of another port and wont get the correct arguments
from MAKE_ARGS.
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