From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 8 15:21:04 2010 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 B19831065679 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2010 15:21:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [204.109.60.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9423F8FC0C for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2010 15:21:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from unknown (87-194-158-129.bethere.co.uk [87.194.158.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5A5655C89; Tue, 8 Jun 2010 15:21:13 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 16:20:47 +0100 From: Bruce Cran To: Giorgos Tsiapaliokas Message-ID: <20100608162047.00001b96@unknown> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4cvs1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can i use flags at once? 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: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:21:04 -0000 On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 13:59:40 +0000 Giorgos Tsiapaliokas 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