options used to compile packages

b. f. bf1783 at googlemail.com
Sat Jul 16 21:00:28 UTC 2011


> I want to compile packages from the ports collections with exactly the
> same options that have been used to compile the official packages from
> the official freebsd package collection. Is the var/db/ports directory
> used to compile the official freebsd package collection available
> somewhere ? If not, it would be very good to make it available as ports
> default options seem to be different from options used to compile
> official packages.

As far as I know, the default options are used to compile the standard
packages.  Where did you think that there were differences?  The
official builds use a vanilla ports tree, and the scripts at
http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/base/projects/portbuild/ .

b.


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