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Date:      Tue, 06 Aug 2002 12:29:00 -0400
From:      "MikeM" <MyRaQ@mgm51.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: How to pass configure parms into a port
Message-ID:  <200208061229000898.008D8927@sentry.24cl.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020806161715.GB15696@uk.easynet.net>
References:  <200208061115140503.0049FE96@sentry.24cl.com> <20020806161715.GB15696@uk.easynet.net>

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Thanks for the quick reply.  

I had thought of that, but I was hoping for a means to accomplish the
same thing, without having to edit a Makefile that may get overwritten
when I update the ports tree.




On 8/6/02 at 5:17 PM Marc Silver wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>You should be able to edit the Makefile for the port and just add this
>yourself... :)
>
>Take a look at any Makefile (/usr/ports/www/apache13/Makefile is a
good
>example) to see how to add configure arguments.  This is how I usually
>do it when I need to...
>
>- Marc
>
>On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 11:15:14AM -0400, MikeM wrote:
>> I'd like to build the port of the nano editor and I'd like to
disable
>> wrapping in the editor.  If I were building nano from the tarball,
I'd
>> specify the --disable-wrapping parameter on the configure step of
the
>> build.
>> 
>> But I am at a loss trying to specify that parameter on the make step
of
>> building from a port.  I checked the handbook, and I didn't find
>> anything that looked helpful for this question.
>> 
>> What obvious thing am I overlooking?

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