Another newbie question, about makefile options

[Doug Barton]

Roland Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 08:28:45PM +0100, Daniel Mouritsen wrote:
>> So my question is, should i pass the makefile options only when running
>> "make" to compile the program (that would make sence wouldnt it?) or should
>> i use them everytime i run make as in both when doing "make" and "make
>> install clean".
> 
> You can put the options in /etc/make.conf. That way you can't forget them
> when you're (re)building a port. For example, for apache22 you could put
> the following in /etc/make.conf:
> 
> .if ${.CURDIR:M*/www/apache22}
> WITH_CATEGORY1_MODULES=yes
> WITH_CATEGORY2_MODULES=yes
> .endif
> 
> This effectively sets the variables whenever make is invoked in a
> directory that ends with www/apache22. See make(1).

See also ports-mgmt/portconf


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