make.conf and compiling source "by hand"

thomasjb

this might be kind of a stupid question, but hopefully some kind soul is willing to help me out anyways.
when i compile source through portage/emerge i have "use flags" to control if support for xxx will be compiled into the app during emerge or not.
if i would compile source "by hand" will all possible support be compiled into the app as default or would none? how could i control it?
thanks for any help.
thomas.

steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

if you compile it by hand, then the gentoo use flags are not controlling what features will be compiled.

to read what kind of features you can enable/disable, you need to read the included documentation of the source-file. often you see there, what you can enable and what disable. mostly it is done by command-line switches when you do a ./configure or a make ....

cheers

SteveB

winfred · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 5 Location: Taiwan

I think maybe ebuild is what you need.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=50352

StuBear · Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 6:16 am Post subject:

most packages have a configure script that will check for installed libraries etc needed for the program.

Generally all you have to do is

thomasjb · Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 7:44 am Post subject:

thanks a lot, StuBear, winfred and steveb. very helpful indead!