prevent overwriting custom make options in ports

[Roland Smith]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:33:01PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I use ports/lang/gcc42.
> I set WITHOUT_JAVA=yes in the Makefile.
> However, with each tree update this option is
> overwritten, so I have to edit the Makefile
> each time I update the port.
> 
> What is the best way to preserve my custom setting,
> add an environment variable?

Add the following to your /etc/make.conf:

.if ${.CURDIR:M*/lang/gcc*}
WITHOUT_JAVA=yes
.endif

What this means is: if the current build directory (.CURDIR) matches 
(M) the pattern */lang/gcc*, set WITHOUT_JAVA=yes. See the VARIABLE
ASSIGNMENTS section in the make(1) manual page for details. 

Roland
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