Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:58:06 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating Ports Message-ID: <20071019125806.31a8b424@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <18199.57951.791968.841899@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <471773D8.80503@mtmary.edu> <18199.32078.807531.40747@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <471786EC.3040803@mtmary.edu> <18199.57951.791968.841899@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:46:55 -0400
Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:
> 3) It is possible to put port-related settings in
> /etc/make.conf. I discourage this, as that file gets used for
> /every/ make session and I consider it asking for trouble to clutter
> it with items that may accidentally overlap with another port. (The
> risk is very small ... but it's still not the right tool for the
> job.)
People tend argue that the other way around, that putting port build
settings in a configuration file that's specific to a single tool is
wrong.
You don't have to set anything globally in make.conf, you can do it
like this:
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/net-mgmt/net-snmp}
WITH_TKMIB=yes
.endif
and that can be simplified by using portconf, which puts a single line
in make.conf and reads in the settings from its own configuration file.
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