Re: What is a FLAVOR and how to unbreak ports?

On 7/27/26 02:47, Tomoaki AOKI wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:25:00 -0700
> "Edward Sanford Sutton, III" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/26/26 19:43, Steve Kargl wrote:
>>> On 7/26/26 18:41, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote:
>>>>     Flavors are a way to have separate packages created for different
>>>> configurations of a port. That way users of pkg do not need to go
>>>> manually build software for relatively common software variation
>>>> possibilities that they may want or need in place of a single default
>>>> set of options.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I read the porter's documentation.  I could not find where
>>> it mentions a comprehensive list of the FLAVORs.  There is no
>>> discussion of how one can query for the list of FLAVORs.
>>
>>     Also not present in the normal handbook when talking about using the
>> ports tree. Unless I'm mistaken, people shouldn't be directed to the
>> porter's handbook unless trying to create or modify ports instead of
>> just use them. Maybe I missed it, but I didn't find any clear definition
>> of relevant variables and commands in /usr/ports/Mk files except as
>> comments above sections of what is being done with blocks of code;
>> normally many variables and targets are described in comments at the top
>> of bsd.port.mk and if not then its in the relevant other files in there.
> 
> I think FreeBSD project is directing regular users to pkg,
> unless non-default options are needed.
> 

And, there's the rub.  Users may need/wish to drop into
the ports tree to build software.  On at least x86_64, the
default options need to build a pkg to work on any x86_64
target.  I have the following in my /etc/make.conf.

FFLAGS+= -O2 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native
FFLAGS+= -funroll-loops --param max-unroll-times=4 -ftree-vectorize

CFLAGS+= -O2 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native

-- 
steve