From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 3 9:53:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from brea.mc.mpls.visi.com (brea.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DDF37B419 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 09:53:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by brea.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 541C52DE833; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 11:53:08 -0600 (CST) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g13Hr7E07574; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 11:53:07 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 11:53:07 -0600 From: D J Hawkey Jr To: Erik Trulsson , questions at FreeBSD Subject: Re: Changing Make options duing port installation? Message-ID: <20020203115307.A7471@sheol.localdomain> Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com References: <20020203112402.A7291@sheol.localdomain> <20020203173925.GA20446@student.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020203173925.GA20446@student.uu.se>; from ertr1013@student.uu.se on Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 06:39:26PM +0100 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 Feb 03, at 06:39 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:24:02AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > Hello All. > > > > How does one change the make options and parameters during the installation > > of any one port? > > Depends on the port. Natch. > > An example: The mutt port disables SSL-encryption ('mutt -v' reports > > "-USE_SSL"). The skeletons in /usr/ports/mail/mutt reference a Makefile > > (and/or config.h?) variable "WITH_SSL" which governs the build. > > It is a 'make' variable. > You pass a parameter to 'make' like this: > > cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt > make WITH_SSL=yes install OK. I'm familiar enough with development tools. Thanks. The question then becomes: Can one divine the options available with what skeleton files exist, or, more often than not, must one do a generic build, then look over the Makefile, config.h, etc., and proceed from there with any customizations? The latter would be most conclusive, I suppose... > Erik Trulsson Thanks much, Dave -- ______________________ ______________________ \__________________ \ D. J. HAWKEY JR. / __________________/ \________________/\ hawkeyd@visi.com /\________________/ http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message