ports-mgmt/portmaster question

[Sergey Kovalev]

Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Mel wrote:
>> On Wednesday 24 December 2008 03:35:07 Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>> B. Cook wrote:
>>>> Is there a way to pass make args (other than -m) for each port?
>>>>
>>> If you want options that only apply to specific ports, then you can use
>>> a construct like this:
>>>
>>> .if ${.CURDIR:M*/databases/mysql*}
>>> WITH_CHARSET=utf8
>>> WITH_XCHARSET=none
>>> WITH_COLLATION=utf8_unicode_ci
>>> WITH_OPENSSL=yes
>>> BUILD_OPTIMIZED=yes
>>> WITH_INNODB=yes
>>> WITH_ARCHIVE=yes
>>> WITH_FEDERATED=yes
>>> WITH_NDB=yes
>>> WITH_CSV=yes
>>> WITH_SPHINXSE=yes
>>> .endif
>>
>> Or, so you don't have one blobby make.conf that needs to be read for 
>> everything that uses FreeBSD's make, you can make a file called 
>> Makefile.local in the port's directory and set these.
>> There are only a few special cases in which this won't work, because 
>> it is included at "the bottom of the port's Makefile", but then you 
>> can resort to /etc/make.conf.
> 
> Yep.  That's true.  Unfortunately though if you use freebsd-update to 
> update your ports tree it will blow away any additional files like 
> that.  csup(1) users will not have that problem.

There is also a nice port ports-mgmt/portconf which adds some snippet to
/etc/make.conf which allows you to add your options in a neat way to
/usr/local/etc/ports.conf.