NO_ knobs in /etc/make.conf

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 21 13:00:49 PST 2008


Toomas Aas wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> In earlier releases, /etc/make.conf had various NO_ knobs such as 
> NO_SENDMAIL or NO_IPFILTER to avoid building specific parts of the 
> system during buildworld. In FreeBSD 7 they seem to be gone? 

There is a cross-reference to src.conf(5) at the end of make.conf(5), 
but IMO the connection needs to be made more explicit. Anyone want to 
take that on? This should also go in the release notes if it's not already.

Doug

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