NO_PROFILE versus WITHOUT_PROFILING

Michael Powell nightrecon at hotmail.com
Fri Nov 27 14:45:27 UTC 2009


Pieter de Goeje wrote:

> On Friday 27 November 2009 12:45:54 Frank Staals wrote:
>> When I was setting up my system for a complete rebuild I came across
>> something unclear to me; I always used NO_PROFILE in my make.conf,
>> however from what  I've read specific make options to build the
>> kernel/base system should be in /etc/src.config. The manpage of src.conf
>> specifies the option WITHOUT_PROFILING, which seemed to be the flag that
>> I was looking for. Just to be certain I always keep the 'Rebuilding
>> World' chapter of the handbook close, however that still specifies to
>> use NO_PROFILE in make.conf.
>> 
>> So now my question: What is the desired way of turning of profiling:
>> NO_PROFILE in make.conf or WITHOUT_PROFILING in src.conf ?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance
>> 
> WITHOUT_PROFILING in src.conf. The NO_xxx options are obsolete and should
> not be used.
> 

Yes - src.conf is used for the system. make.conf will contain options you 
want to apply to building ports. They were split to separate them.

-Mike




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