Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:11:04 -0400 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Carl <k0802647@telus.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building a port with very long list of build options Message-ID: <BANLkTinn53mqc=2rkWqMAqZJvdK-vydP7A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DB0F34B.9030008@telus.net> References: <4DB0F34B.9030008@telus.net>
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Carl <k0802647@telus.net> wrote:
> Let's say I want to build a port for which I need to specify a huge number
> of build options (eg. ghostscript). In my case I am cross-compiling on an
> amd64 host for what will be a NanoBSD i386 target, but I don't think that's
> important here. The scenario precludes using the familiar configuration
> menu. The problem is that the desired list of options far exceeds what would
> be sane to specify on the 'make' command line. In fact, it apparently even
> exceeds what typical text editors tolerate when trying to enter the line in
> a shell script. What is the recommended solution?
>
> Given that I do not want to customize the port's Makefile, I was hoping
> 'make' would support a command line option that would let me simply point to
> a separate file containing the list of variables to add, one per line. It's
> not apparent to me that that exists.
>
> Carl / K0802647
>
>
>
If you read the make manual page , you will see the following option :
...
*-f* *makefile*
Specify a makefile to read instead of the default one.
...
which is used as
make -f your_own_make_file_name
This form will override the Makefile present in the current directory
and will use the specified make file with name your_own_make_file_name .
Thank you very much .
Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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