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In-Reply-To: <E19CBDD9F21ED111A96A00805F0D6AE0CAF1D7@AFBWNT01>; from Boehme.Silvio@afb.de on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:03:37PM +0200
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:03:37PM +0200, BoehmeSilvio wrote:

> I found out, that all nessesary options are stored in make.conf /
> make.defaults.  Is there any documentation for these files ?

/etc/make.defaults is antiquated.  If you have portage-1.5-r1 installed, then
you should remove it.  All your custom settings should go in /etc/make.conf.

> What are the following options ?
> 
> CHOST

This sets the HOST variable for compiles, i.e. "i686-pc-linux-gnu"

> CFLAGS ( are these the gcc compiler flags ?? )

Yes. 

> CXXFLAGS ( are these the gcc compiler flags ?? )

Yes.

> USE

This allows you to set what optional components you'd like compiled-in if
available.  For example, if you have "gnome" inside the USE string, then when
you compile xchat, it will include GNOME support.  All our dependencies are
also USE-aware.

Best Regards,

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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.