Setting make options permanently (WITHOUT_GNOME, etc)

[Roger Merritt]

At 06:31 PM 4/1/03, Erik Trulsson wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:13:38PM +0300, Dan Naumov wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I've been wondering whether it is possible to make make (pardon the
> > wording) always use specific options. For example, I see that many ports
> > allow the user to set WITHOUT_GNOME or WITHOUT_X prior to building the
> > port.
> >
> > 1) Is there a definite list of these variables ?
>
>No.
>
> > 2) Is it possible to somehow permanently set some of those variables so
> > that I wouldn't have to do that manually every time I want to update a
> > port ?
>
>Add them to /etc/make.conf

Another good way is to set them in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf, if you use 
'portupgrade'. That way you can set them for only the ports they apply to.


> >
> > I've checked /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf and The HandBook, but
> > neither had any information on setting things like this up. Any ideas ?

man portupgrade (if you have it installed -- if not, consider installing it).

-- 
Roger