What flags package was compiled with?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Dec 28 21:30:52 PST 2005


Pawel wrote:

> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
>> This information is not directly recorded, although sometimes you can
>> infer it from the list of dependencies.
>
>
> Thanks
> But in general, packages have been compiled with "default" port's 
> Makefile flags. Is that correct? 

The packages you can download from the FreeBSD ftp site are all built 
with default options.  Packages built by users 'by hand' or downloaded 
from some other site may or may not.

Kris


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