Port Build options

[Kevin Oberman]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Stan Gammons <s_gammons at charter.net> wrote:

> When one builds a port manually with make install clean or uses
> portmaster to build a port, does one typically select ALL of the compile
> options?  Which also leads to another question, are the pre-built
> packages that are installed with pkg_add or pkgng compiled with ALL of
> the options?
>
>
> Stan
>

Most people install with the default options. If they have special
requirements, they adjust their options accordingly.

Most users don't really even understand what some options really are and,
if they don't have a particular interest, they will not set them. Soem of
the cases where options are commonly changed from default are when CPU
specific optimizations are available. Obviously packages can't be built
that way as they would not run on all systems. Another is selection of
codecs on multimedia apps. There are many reasons to change defaults, but
they should only be changed for a good reason.

Packages are built with default options.

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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com