Passing make options to portmanager

[Dimitris Tsamis]

Michael C. Shultz wrote:

>On Friday 16 December 2005 16:31, Dimitris Tsamis wrote:
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>>I want to switch from portupgrade to portmanager, but I have a few
>>questions.
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>>First of all, how do I pass make options to portmanager? (like the -m
>>option  for portupgrade). I often pass selected make options to
>>multimedia players to choose what formats will be supported.
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>Place make options in either pkgtools.conf, pm-020.conf or /etc/make.conf,
>man portmanager explains how.  There isn't a way to pass make options
>from portmanager's command line.
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Thanks for clearing it up.

>>Can someone verify that portmanager reads pkgtools.conf?
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>You can see for yourself, run portmanager -u -ui, it will stop
>before upgrading the first port.  As it collects initial information
>any make options found in either pm-020.conf or pkgtools.conf
>will be shown to the right of the port name.  One caveat, you
>must have ruby and portupgrade installed or portmanager will
>ignore pkgtools.conf.
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I prefer to use pkgtools.conf because from what I understand it is a
system file, whereas pm-020.conf is only for portmanager (I have ruby
and portupgrade installed).

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>>Thanks for your time
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>welcome
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>-Mike
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Thanks for your answer :)