Compile options

[David Adam]

"Hello,
i am looking for something like USE flags in gentoo GNU/Linux
distribution. in the USE variable are defined keywords which are mapped
onto compile-options."

Lute:
I don't think he means that he's looking for USE flags in Gentoo. I read
the paragraph as "I would like Gentoo-style USE flags or their
equivalents."

Delphinus:
Having said that, I'm not familiar enough with the ports collection to
really know of anything like this.

One thing you might like to look at is /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf which
can be copied and edited from /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.sample (from
memory). As documented in
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/09/18/FreeBSD_Basics.html you can set
various make options for ports every time you compile them.

I guess you *could* add
MAKE_ARGS = {
    '*' => 'WITH_QT=1 WITH_GTK=0 etc etc',
}
to /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf, but that's almost guaranteed not to work
in all cases. You're better off examining each port individually, setting
the make options in pkgtools.conf, and then installing with portinstall/
upgrading using portupgrade.

No worries, then,

David Adam
zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au