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Date:      Sun, 14 Jul 2019 20:59:03 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        hw <hw@adminart.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What does it mean to use ports?
Message-ID:  <23851.53207.561626.837532@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <20190715021053.2f82c84c.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <87o91wqjl5.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <20190715021053.2f82c84c.freebsd@edvax.de>

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Polytropon writes:

>  > Can I globally set compile options like -march=native (or 
>  > whatever the equivalent for FreeBSD is)?
>  
>  The file /etc/make.conf can be used for that. See "man 5 make.conf"
>  for details.

	Verbum sapienti: be careful when you do this.  The settings in
make.conf are used for _every_ compilation on the system - ports
... and world ... and the kernel,
	I am still trying to find an exposition of the logic that
prevents a "/etc/ports.conf" as a sibling to "/etc/src.conf" and
make.conf. 


			Respectfully,


				Robert Huff




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