Passing options to configure / compiler

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:32:14 +0100, Martin Hudec <corwin at aeternal.net>
wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 05:40:01PM +0100 or thereabouts, Remko Lodder
> wrote:
> > Vittorio wrote:
> > >I couldn't find in the docs how to pass options to the configure
> > >script.
> > >
> > 
> > if you want to use WITH_TESTS for example you need to add
> > 
> > make WITH_TESTS=yes install clean (or something similiar)
> > 
> > when portupgrade'ing that you should do
> > 
> > portupgrade -M 'WITH_TESTS=yes' postgresql
> > (or again; something similiar)
> > 
> > Hope that helps!
> 
> 	It would be nice for him to set options pkgtools.conf, which
> can be usually found in /usr/local/etc. 
> 
> For example:
> I want links to be compiled without X11 support, so I set in section
> named MAKE_ARGS following:
> 
> 	'www/links' => 'WITHOUT_X11=yes',
> 
> so this compilation option will be reflected next time he uses
> portupgrade utility. Otherwise portupgrade will ignore previous
> compilation options. Or at least I don't know how to tell portupgrade
> which options did I use to compile the port :).

This also has the advantage of being able to set arguments to configure
which the port maintainer may not have provided knobs for, by doing
something like this:

	'www/links' => 'CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--some-option-to-configure',

Of course, this all depends on having portupgrade installed, and using
it consistently for building/upgrading.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"