Simple questions, MAKE_ARGS in pkgtools.conf

[Nikolas Britton]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

>On 2005-01-25 21:30, Nikolas Britton <freebsd at nbritton.org> wrote:
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>>Lets say I have BATCH=yes (/etc/make.conf) and I have a port with a
>>menu that turns on some flags i.e.:
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>>OPTIONS=        DEBUG "Build a debugging image" off \
>>               LOGGING "Enable additional log messages" off \
>>               OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS "Enable some additional optimizations"
>>off \
>>               XFT "Enable support for anti-aliased fonts" on \
>>               SMB "Enable smb:// URI support using gnomevfs" off
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>>If I do something like the following:
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>>MAKE_ARGS = {
>>'www/firefox' => 'WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=yes CPUTYPE=p4',
>>'multimedia/gstreamer-*' => 'CPUTYPE=p2'
>>}
>>
>>Will portupgrade only build the port with what I put in MAKE_ARGS or
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>Yes.
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>>will it just append it to the ports config?
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>Not sure about this.  AFAIK, MAKE_ARGS are passed as command line
>options to Make when the port is built.  So, if passing them on the
>command line works until now *and* saves them in the persistent port
>options cache, it will work with portupgrade too.
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what is the "persistent port options cache"? and I'm still confused as 
you said yes and no to my question.