portupgrade / arguments for make

Zbigniew Szalbot zszalbot at gmail.com
Fri Sep 7 09:55:41 PDT 2007


Hello,

> > When using portupgrade -fr I need to specify an argument that I do not
> > want X11 binaries installed during the upgrade process. Now from man I
> > read it is the -m switch. But how do I pass the argument:
> >
> > portupgrade -fr -m WITHOUTX11 php4
> >
> > but this does not do the trick. Many thanks for the correct switch. I
> > could not find it in man make.
> >
>
>
> -m '-DWITHOUT_X11'
>
> You missed the -D and the underscore
>
> But very likely this should be defined globally in make.conf as
>
>
> WITHOUT_X11=yes

I set it in /etc/make.conf
Thank you very much. I am impressed how friendly and helpful FBSD community is.

All the best!

Zbigniew Szalbot


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