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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 14:22:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Steven Ames <steve@news.cioe.com>
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To: gmarco@giovannelli.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Important: -O flag crashes cc in libncurses
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> I know just a little about -O, and I think it is the optimization level,
> but I don't know really what the number are ... 
> 
> Is possible to modify the Makefile to use -O2 for the libncurses instead of
> -O ? It would important for me if I want to complete a make world.... :-)

Try this:

cp /usr/src/etc/make.conf /etc/make.conf

Then edit /etc/make.conf. The first configuration option is 'CFLAGS'. These
will be the flags used when when makeing the world... and at some point the
make for the ports also started using this file.

							-STeve