ports-mgmt/portmaster question

[Matthew Seaman]

Mel wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 December 2008 03:35:07 Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> B. Cook wrote:
>>> Is there a way to pass make args (other than -m) for each port?
>>>
> 
> ...
> 
>> If you want options that only apply to specific ports, then you can use
>> a construct like this:
>>
>> .if ${.CURDIR:M*/databases/mysql*}
>> WITH_CHARSET=utf8
>> WITH_XCHARSET=none
>> WITH_COLLATION=utf8_unicode_ci
>> WITH_OPENSSL=yes
>> BUILD_OPTIMIZED=yes
>> WITH_INNODB=yes
>> WITH_ARCHIVE=yes
>> WITH_FEDERATED=yes
>> WITH_NDB=yes
>> WITH_CSV=yes
>> WITH_SPHINXSE=yes
>> .endif
> 
> Or, so you don't have one blobby make.conf that needs to be read for 
> everything that uses FreeBSD's make, you can make a file called 
> Makefile.local in the port's directory and set these.
> There are only a few special cases in which this won't work, because it is 
> included at "the bottom of the port's Makefile", but then you can resort 
> to /etc/make.conf.
> 

Yep.  That's true.  Unfortunately though if you use freebsd-update to 
update your ports tree it will blow away any additional files like 
that.  csup(1) users will not have that problem.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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