Vic FreeBSD wrote:
I need to compile some of my pet programs from the ports according to specific
configure options valid of course for each of them (I mean the options that
go with the "make" command).
Somewhere in the internet I read something about an /etc/pkgtool.conf allowing
those tailoring but looking for /etc/pkgtool.conf both in www.freebsd.org and
in the internet I could find pieces of rubbish only, it al seems to be
vanished.
Ciao Vic,
install either of the following ports:
sysutils/portupgrade
or
sysutils/port-maintenance-tools (which is a meta port for portuprade and
some of its friends).
then you'll find
/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf
and a default conf too.
I found it best to get all the right options I wanted for a port (or if
i couldn't find exactly all the options I needed...) to run a make,
select the options needed, accept, (then cancel if u want). The options
u selected get saved in /var/db/ports/[PORT_NAME]/options . simply
reformat the lines in the options file and put them in your
pkgtools.conf and u're set.
You should also pay special attention to the messages that are >>stdout
when you start compiling,as they usually show you other useful options.
BTW, I'm not 100% sure of this, but I think that pkgtools.conf is only
read by the port* tools. so once you start using pkgtools.conf, you
should install your ports with "portinstall section/port" rather than
"cd section/port; make install".
Good luck,
Beto
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