Re: need info builing ports properly

2012-03-29 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Mark Felder wrote: > My second suggestion is to please never ever ever mess with CFLAGS on > FreeBSD. You can get away with it on some Linux distros, but FreeBSD > strongly discourages it. Not true. eg I've set various CFLAGS for years. What FreeBSD requires is if one sets either CFLAGS or

Re: need info builing ports properly

2012-03-28 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, icemac wrote: I wasn't after fiddling or optimizing much and just want to to build ports i need and have them as reliable and stable as possibile, but i misunderstood the function of that setting in make.conf. I actually had thought that that was required and in turn assu

Re: need info builing ports properly

2012-03-28 Thread icemac
On 03/28/12 18:52, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 28/03/2012 15:40, icemac wrote: At the moment my /etc/make.conf just has 1 line with the Perl version entry, should i always leave cflags out? I think that not setting CLFAGS would be sensible. There's plenty of other stuff you can fiddle with in /et

Re: need info builing ports properly

2012-03-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 28/03/2012 15:40, icemac wrote: > Thanks for your quick reply, but can you clarify what you mean about not > messing with the CFLAGS? > I mean I had only ever used that one setting taken from the example in > /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf, and the only experimentation i did is > either with

Re: need info builing ports properly

2012-03-28 Thread icemac
On 03/28/12 17:30, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, icemac wrote: I only ever had this option set CFLAGS= -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe Setting that in make.conf is counterproductive. First, those are the defaults, so they don't improve anything. Second, that overrides settings

Re: need info builing ports properly

2012-03-28 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, icemac wrote: I only ever had this option set CFLAGS= -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe Setting that in make.conf is counterproductive. First, those are the defaults, so they don't improve anything. Second, that overrides settings made elsewhere. Consider a port like G

Re: need info builing ports properly

2012-03-28 Thread icemac
On 03/28/12 16:22, Mark Felder wrote: My first suggestion is to begin using portmaster which can be found here: /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster My second suggestion is to please never ever ever mess with CFLAGS on FreeBSD. You can get away with it on some Linux distros, but FreeBSD strongly

Re: need info builing ports properly

2012-03-28 Thread Mark Felder
My first suggestion is to begin using portmaster which can be found here: /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster My second suggestion is to please never ever ever mess with CFLAGS on FreeBSD. You can get away with it on some Linux distros, but FreeBSD strongly discourages it. My third suggestio

need info builing ports properly

2012-03-28 Thread icemac
Hi, I am fairly new to fbsd and not a linux user, just windows and osx. My first install was version 7.1 for a short while and had 7.2, but only just came back to it with 9.0-r (amd64). I have a bit of an issue with the port system and was hoping to get some basic info as to what i might be do