Global ports customization

[Walter Venable]

Regardless, you can always submit your patch via send-pr, if you like.

Walter Venable


>From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
>To: freebsd-ports at freebsd.org, portmgr at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Global ports customization
>Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:27:16 -0800
>
>On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:18:17AM +0300, Rodion Novoselov wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I'm used to putting down customization things for ports into
> > /etc/make.conf file. However, I consider it to be a pretty wrong place
> > because /etc/make.conf is included implicitly every time make runs no
> > matter whether I build a port or something else. Having looked
> > bsd.port.mk through I've found an opportunity to add a per-port
> > customization via ${PORTSDIR}/${PORTORIGIN}/Makefile.local. Why
> > shouldn't do the same stuff for the ports collection at whole and add
> > something like:
> >
> > .if exists(${PORTSDIR}/Makefile.local)
> > .include "${PORTSDIR}/Makefile.local"
> > .endif
> >
> > to bsd.port.mk?
>
>Frankly I don't really see the need.  The problem of /etc/make.conf
>being used for non-port makes is not significant.
>
>Kris
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