From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 7: 7:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E42D037B401 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 07:07:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.24cl.com (174.113.sn.ct.dsl.thebiz.net [216.238.113.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 454E943E6E for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 07:07:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from MyRaQ@mgm51.com) Received: from ntmm (unknown [63.119.50.193]) by home.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47CBA2B28A; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:07:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <200208071007280479.03E5A1A4@sentry.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <20020807133152.GM281@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <200208061115140503.0049FE96@sentry.24cl.com> <20020806152707.GB281@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <200208070920250907.03BA8FFB@sentry.24cl.com> <20020807133152.GM281@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (1) Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 10:07:28 -0400 Reply-To: myraq@mgm51.com From: "MikeM" To: neuhauser@bellavista.cz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How to pass configure parms into a port Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 8/7/02 at 3:31 PM Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > this is covered in make(1), which i think you've read seeing you > knew how to get the value of CONFIGURE_ARGS from it. > > ... > >> So the command line invocation of CONFIGURE_ARGS seems to work as >> expected. Cool. I'll send a note to the handbook folk, and ask if >> this can be added to the ports section of the handbook. > > documentation never killed anybody. :) ============= Yup. The handbook was the first place I looked for the answer. Once I got into the bsd.port.mk file and make(1), I ran into information overload; and I missed something obvious, as you noted above. :-) Thanks for the follow-up. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message