Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 16:20:47 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Giorgos Tsiapaliokas <terietor@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can i use flags at once? Message-ID: <20100608162047.00001b96@unknown> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim2DznYVnGYn0YJIeFbSTJWjpyBtFyMHwjuKHqm@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTim2DznYVnGYn0YJIeFbSTJWjpyBtFyMHwjuKHqm@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 13:59:40 +0000 Giorgos Tsiapaliokas <terietor@gmail.com> wrote: > hello, > > i am a gentoo user and now i am trying to install a freebsd on my > machine. ports are great but while my machine is compiling i receive > messages about the flags. > > in gentoo i was able via the file /etc/portage/package.use to > determine which flags i wanted to enable and which not. > > is there any way to do this in FreeBSD,since gentoo's portage is > based on ports. The only similar mechanism is /etc/make.conf where you can put flags such as USE_X11=yes or USE_GTK2=yes in order to build ports with X11 or Gtk2 support. Unlike Gentoo there's no central repository of valid flags. -- Bruce
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