From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 12 04:59:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA94516A419 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:59:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tim1timau@yahoo.com) Received: from web50303.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web50303.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.38.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9EF3E13C447 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:59:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tim1timau@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 1015 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Jan 2008 04:32:55 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=WOlw4aX3VuALQnChgyZ8US9zj7lA4t0suqOcCtCHuqrOH9xqXJf0AHRmEl3neiZHSbjz6WXvaKEATITeJTuXbz4oPktCdSmOOGR7gLreRkQltyhhjx9UHpI0iuCnlHGpXkqQPhJo/d5uobjSEn8OYoNxo+pnupGqtXpxbQwnhCM=; X-YMail-OSG: xtM4ylUVM1nndtFQjwOVmxr1_Wwws3ciuMxnUCdDH1uZU53UP5vHPuTrigXK_XcJ8vo2KAz9GbL4mGtB9SPfLd27nYgv9lH8lqwyCnNcT_aSm6wsfLUEW0DnQLxI Received: from [203.49.197.51] by web50303.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:32:55 PST Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:32:55 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Clewlow To: Chris , Brian In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0801111846g2e14adcei3e27ea0370262dc4@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <871405.99936.qm@web50303.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Cc: Ade Lovett , Stephen Montgomery-Smith , Steven Kreuzer , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limitations of Ports System X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:59:38 -0000 --- Chris wrote: > On 13/12/2007, Brian wrote: > > I just wonder if you asked the general population, whether they'd rather > > have ports or packages, I bet most would vote for packages, aside from > > those that actually like watching the compilation output fly by. > > I do like to watch it but in addition I always like to compile my own > binaries etc. rather than using something thats precompiled and > limited to how the compiler compiled it. > > Chris I change options in the mplayer Makefile to include twolame and mencoder in the build because that way you get more codecs available for mencoder. Also, MySQL has WITH_OPENSSL=yes in the make, and in PHP make config, I select Build Apache module. Also I have the following options on in /etc/make.conf. CFLAGS= -O -pipe # Optimize general builds COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe # Optimize kernel builds NO_PROFILE= # Only need to uncomment this line, no options Finally, as a rule I install the latest patched up version of stable 6.x from this optimised build (build once on a master cvs/build server). Dont know how many other people do this, but I definately prefer ports over packages. Cheers, Tim. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ