freebsd-update and ports

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:

> For the 'make kernel' to force not using /etc/make.conf:
>
> make kernel __MAKE_CONF=/dev/null
>
> I think that's what the variable is called - I don't have a FreeBSD
> handy to check.

   % make -V__MAKE_CONF
   /etc/make.conf

Added.  It does make the next sentence a bit redundant.

   It is also suggested that the kernel is built without any other
   special options, preferably with an empty /etc/make.conf.

Offhand, I can't think of other special options to be given as 
alternate examples.