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Subject: Re: Ports
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Paul Schmehl wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Norgaard" 
> <norgaard@locolomo.org>
> To: "Paul Schmehl" <pauls@utdallas.edu>
> Cc: "Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 2:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Ports
>
>>
>> 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 :-)
>>
> While that is true, you can also set options for individual ports.
>
> Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
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Could you please give some detail about setting options for individual 
ports in make.conf?  Maybe I missed something in 'man make.conf' or 'man 
ports' but everything seems to refer to global options.  The only 
example I've found is in man portmanager, but I'm still a little unsure 
about the how to do it properly.