Re: Please shed some wisdom on how autogen/autoconf works? Also, how to build a port from github.

Hi!

> 1) Does the ports tree magically tweak CFLAGS or whatever when you build a port, to include things like /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib?

Yes.

If you run a port-build and log the build, you'll see many calls like this:

libtool: compile:  cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../config -D_REENTRANT -DUSE_IOPERM -DIPV6 -isystem /usr/local/include -O2 -pipe -D_WANT_SEMUN -fstack-protector-strong -isystem /usr/local/include -fno-strict-aliasing -MT libmiscutil_la-fd.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libmiscutil_la-fd.Tpo -c fd.c -o libmiscutil_la-fd.o >/dev/null 2>&1

and here you see the -isystem /usr/local/include...

> I don’t see anything that would do this in /usr/ports/Mk

USES=           localbase

triggers those. See Mk/Uses/localbase.mk

> 2) Is there a standard method for ports that need to run autogen?

Somewhat for GNU autoconf: see Mk/Uses/autoreconf.mk

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