make installworld fails

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Sun Feb 8 01:03:36 PST 2009


On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:45:59 -0700, Tim Judd <tajudd at gmail.com> wrote:
> I should make sure it's mentioned --
> FreeBSD 7.x started an /etc/src.conf that are the knobs for FreeBSD
> world ONLY.  This leaves /etc/make.conf available for ports ONLY.
>
> I'd update your files, because there's a possibility your WITHOUT_
> statements were ignored.

IIRC, src.conf works in _addition_ to make.conf so having options in
either one should be safe I think.  The advice of keeping options
cleanly separated is very sound though, to avoid confusion when these
two files have conflicting options :-)



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