Re: Default make.conf in FreeBSD 5.x?

2004-06-14 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Monday 14 June 2004 02:41, Andrew McLaren wrote: Apologies in advance for what might be a dumb question - but I have searched Readmes, UPDATE, Handbook, FAQ, Google, without finding the answer Looks like you did not look at the man page. from make.conf(5): FILES /etc/make.conf

RE: Default make.conf in FreeBSD 5.x?

2004-06-14 Thread Andrew McLaren
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Antoine Jacoutot Sent: Monday, 14 June 2004 17:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Default make.conf in FreeBSD 5.x? On Monday 14 June 2004 02:41, Andrew McLaren wrote: Apologies in advance for what might be a dumb

Re: Default make.conf in FreeBSD 5.x?

2004-06-14 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Monday 14 June 2004 10:01, Andrew McLaren wrote: No, I read the man page :-) I may be stupid, but I am not lazy :-)) The man page also helpfully says This man page may occasionally be out of date so, while it's a useful document, it is not necessarily the final arbiter of correctness. I

Default make.conf in FreeBSD 5.x?

2004-06-13 Thread Andrew McLaren
Hi all, Apologies in advance for what might be a dumb question - but I have searched Readmes, UPDATE, Handbook, FAQ, Google, without finding the answer ... In FreeBSD 4, there was a /etc/defaults/make.conf; and a /etc/make.conf with my own make overrides. But when I install FreeBSD 5.2.1,

Re: Default make.conf in FreeBSD 5.x?

2004-06-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-06-14 10:41, Andrew McLaren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In FreeBSD 4, there was a /etc/defaults/make.conf; and a /etc/make.conf with my own make overrides. But when I install FreeBSD 5.2.1, there is no make.conf in the /etc/defaults directory. Also, /etc/make.conf only contains a couple

RE: Default make.conf in FreeBSD 5.x?

2004-06-13 Thread Andrew McLaren
Thanks, Giorgos. To clarify: yes, there's a *sample* file here, under /usr/share/examples. If I want the make.conf to actually be read and used when compiling something, I still need to move it to /etc/make.conf. Right? Thanks Andrew -Original Message- But when I install FreeBSD