Passing options to configure / compiler

Martin Hudec corwin at aeternal.net
Sun Nov 21 04:09:59 PST 2004


Hello,

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 01:06:05PM +0000 or thereabouts, Vittorio wrote:
> I couldn't find in the docs how to pass options to the configure script.
> 
> For instance, I'm compiling postgresql under FreeBSD 5.3 stable.
> After 'cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql7' and ' make' a list of 
> configure options is shown; among them I'm interested in "WITH_TESTS"" 
> but I do not know how  to pass this option to the compiler (or to 
> configure????).

For example: 

	# make WITH_TESTS=yes install clean

List of possible options is obtainable through reading the Makefile.


	Cheers,

	Martin

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