Question on freeBSD (5.1-CURRENT) portupgrade of Perl 5.8 andlibiconv 1.9.1_3

[Szilveszter Adam]

Hello,

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:21:10AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 01:14, Scott W wrote:
> > Also, is there a way to pass configure options to portupgrade, or should 
> > I run make clean && ./configure for each port in an 'upgrade chain' and 
> > then force portupgrade to not make clean prior to building/installing?
> 
> Configure arguments?  No.  However, you can use the -m option to pass
> make arguments (e.g. -DWITH_FOO).  To pass configure arguments, you'd
> have to edit the port Makefiles directly.

There is an easier way: you can use CONFIGURE_* variables, which can
also be defined on the command line. For documentation on these and on
the Makefile format for ports, see the Porters Handbook.

There is also pkgtools.conf, as has been noted.

Hope this helps.

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Regards:

Szilveszter ADAM
Budapest
Hungary