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Date:      Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:55:16 +1100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make options
Message-ID:  <20011113175516.F684@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011113174628.01f3a730@pop.ozemail.com.au>; from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au on Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 05:48:50PM %2B1100
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 05:48:50PM +1100, Rob B wrote:
> >Putting them in /etc/make.conf would be a good idea, it also gives
> >you some space for documentation.
> 
> Would this mean that the /etc/make.conf file would get huge?  I mean, most 
> ports are fine with the defaults, but if I have 6 or 7 ports that I need to 
> modify, wouldn't the makefile become rather large?
> 
> Supposing I was to edit /etc/make.conf, how would I specify different 
> options for different ports?

Something like this:

[~] edwin@k7>cat /etc/make.conf 
#
# Option for OpenSSH (obsolete)
#
USA_RESIDENT=NO

#
# Libpng can use this my 3l1t3 AMD CPU
#
WITH_PNG_MMX=YES

#
# Came with XFree86-4
#
XFREE86_VERSION=4

Edwin

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