changing build options for ports

2002-10-31 Thread Soren Harward
I was trying to build VIM on my webserver, and it started to build the X version, downloading all the X libraries, etc. This is a lights out machine, so I didn't want X on it, so I killed the build. I eventually figured out that by putting: WITHOUT_X11=1 somewhere near the beginning of my

Re: changing build options for ports

2002-10-31 Thread Adam Weinberger
gotta be a better way to set these options than editing the Makefile. What is the best common practice to set these options? end of changing build options for ports from Soren Harward /etc/make.conf and /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.con (from sysutils/portupgrade). - -Adam - -- Adam Weinberger

Re: changing build options for ports

2002-10-31 Thread Michael Joyner
you can usually set compile time options in the environment before invoking make i.e. export WITHOUT_X11=true make Quoting Soren Harward [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was trying to build VIM on my webserver, and it started to build the X version, downloading all the X libraries, etc. This is a lights

Re: changing build options for ports

2002-10-31 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:13:37PM -0700, Soren Harward wrote: you know, theres gotta be a better way to set these options than editing the Makefile. What is the best common practice to set these options? make -DWITHOUT_X11 For pararmeters whose value is important, say something like: make