On Friday 14 May 2004 00:03, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:[ ... ]
Yes, you do. But I'm sure that you will find the make.conf(5)
manpage very informative and useful.
not really. it says
...
The /etc/make.conf file is included from the appropriate Makefile which specifies the default settings for all the available options. Options need only be specified in /etc/make.conf when the system administrator
wishes to override these defaults.
...
The manpage is correct. /etc/make.conf behaves much the same way as /etc/rc.conf and other config files with regard to default values.
Take a look in /etc/defaults/make.conf, /etc/defaults/rc.conf, etc.
[ ... ]
to my understanding this explains what CFLAGS/COPTFLAGS are intended for and _implies_ you'd have to uncomment the flag definitions in /etc/make.conf to set them active, ....
Your understanding is not correct, although it's not clear what we should change to help resolve the confusion.
CFLAGS has a default value which will be used for everything you compile (meaning ports, the base system, and other things as well [1]) unless you specify something else.
otherwise the settings specified in the respective Makefile would be used.
No, the various Makefiles throughout the system *don't* set CFLAGS for themselves, they inherit it. The reason this happens is so that you, the user, can specify CFLAGS once, in a well-documented location, and actually have your settings respected by the various software you might compile.
I had explicitly specified COPTFLAGS (-O -pipe) but not CFLAGS and saw -O overriding -O2 when compiling a port...
Please tell us which port was listing the -O2? Ports which disregard CFLAGS are considered BROKEN and ought to be fixed...
-- -Chuck
[1]: Observe what happens if one does "touch foo.c ; make foo.o"...
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