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Date:      Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:43:03 +0100
From:      Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com>
To:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: customizing a port
Message-ID:  <20020102164303.A23687@bs13.bsag.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20011231114005.B80099@pr0n.kutulu.org>; from kutulu@kutulu.org on Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 11:40:05AM -0500
References:  <20011231165258.A19838@bs13.bsag.ch> <20011231114005.B80099@pr0n.kutulu.org>

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On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 11:40:05AM -0500, Kutulu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 04:52:58PM +0100, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > how can one customize a port?
> 
> In most cases, you can define CONFIGURE_ARGS on the make command line to
> generate arguments to configure.
> 
> make -DCONFIGURE_ARGS='--with-included-regex' install
> 
> This will work with varying degrees of success for a given port, as some
> ports replace CONFIGURE_ARGS with their own, instead of
> appending to it.

As of `less' it seems to require CONFIGURE_ARGS (without -D).
Thanks.

-Hanspeter

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