configure options

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:01:29 +0100
Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

> I'm having problems building www/firefox on ia64.
> I was advised to:
> 
> 	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683879
> 
> 	--- Comment #3 from Boris Zbarsky (:bz) <bzbarsky at mit.edu>
> 2011-09-01 10:36:27 PDT --- Do things work if you do use
> --disable-ipc?
> 
> 	-- 
> 
> How should I specify this option within
> the ports framework? Should it be something
> like
> 	make disable-ipc=yes

Anytime you need to tinker with the arguments to a port that uses a GNU
configure script, you'll want to add a line to the top-level Makefile,
somewhere after any existing CONFIGURE_ARGS definition(s), if any:

CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--disable-ipc

(Note the use of the "+=" operator.  This will ensure that any
configure options you add won't replace those already specified in the
Makefile, but will be appended to them instead)

If you cd to the port's WRKDIR, you can run "./configure --help" to see
all of the possible options.

HTH

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier
conrads at cox.net