Thanks for your help, Alex. I found what I was looking for here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-January/031160.html
If was the: # make WITH_EXTRA_MODULES Cheers, Nicholas On 6/30/05, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nicholas Henry wrote: > > >Thank you for your reply. I guess I was under the assumption that the > >Apache port would come "pre-configured" with some options. So I didn't > >want to do a "configure" and overwrite what is there. So can you > >confirm that it isn't pre-configured anyway? Are any of the ports have > >configurations set? > > > > > I'm still not clear what you mean by "pre-configured". Do you mean > "comes with a standard configuration file for when it runs" then, yes it > does, though you will have to edit it to suit your needs. Since you > have the port installed, you must have done this. > > If you mean "does it pick some standard options at compile time", then > yes, it probably does, but obviously it did not include the proxy module > you wanted, so you will have to do something when you make apache2 to > get it added. If I remember correctly, if you just type "make > show-options" and it will tell you what to do. > > Many ports do have pre-defined, standard, compile-time options which > they use. Other ports will stop and ask you which of the many options > you want to choose. In both cases, *something* is picked as the > default, but it may not be what you want. Since your original question > was about installing the proxy module, my suggestion was not just to add > that, but also to look at the other modules *now* and add any you > reasonably think you *might* need just to save installing all over again. > > Apache is about the most complicated port, with respect to the > compile-time options, that you may ever install. There are so many > bells, whistles, alternatives and other hoopla, that it makes sense to > see what there is and try and take some informed guesstimates at which > of those you want. Get it right once and you can forget about it. > > See my previous message for how to make sure that portupgrade will use > the same options, if you ever need to remake the port. > > Hope that helps, > > --Alex > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"