From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 20 23:35:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 85BFA16A400 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:35:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from smtpout.eastlink.ca (smtpout.eastlink.ca [24.222.0.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29FCE43D5C for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:35:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@greenmeadow.ca) Received: from ip03.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.15]) by mta01.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IWG00C2V9IVZHJ0@mta01.eastlink.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:35:21 -0400 (AST) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO [192.168.0.103]) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip03.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:35:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:34:09 -0400 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: <20060320231651.GA60123@owl.midgard.homeip.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <441F3BF1.20200@greenmeadow.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= References: <441F33F8.60209@greenmeadow.ca> <20060320231651.GA60123@owl.midgard.homeip.net> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060309) Subject: Re: make.conf syntax X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:35:22 -0000 Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 07:00:08PM -0400, Duane Whitty wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I believe I used the wrong syntax in my make.conf >> I used >> >> NO_PROFILE="YES" >> >> Should I have instead used >> >> NO_PROFILE=YES >> >> or >> >> NO_PROFILE=TRUE >> > > It shouldn't matter. > > >> Is YES and TRUE and 1 equivalent in this context? >> > > Yes, and they are also equivalent to NO or FALSE. > The makefiles only check if NO_PROFILE is defined, not what it is > defined as. > This is true for many other makefile variables as well. > > > Thanks, I've been reading make.conf(5) and so I now understand what you mean. I should have defined a variable for myself before I started, first_step="RTFM" Thanks for everyone's patience, Duane