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.Dd February 17, 1999
.Dt MK.CONF 5
.Os
.\" turn off hyphenation
.hym 999
.Sh NAME
.Nm mk.conf
.Nd make configuration file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
file overrides various parameters used during the build of the system.
.Pp
Listed below are the
.Nm
variables that may be set, the values to which each may be set,
a brief description of what each variable does, and a reference to
relevant manual pages.
.Ss NetBSD System variables
.Bl -tag -width OBJMACHINE
.It Sy BSDOBJDIR
The real path to the system
.Sq obj
tree, so that
.Sq "make obj"
will work correctly.
Default:
.Pa /usr/obj .
.It Sy BSDSRCDIR
The real path to the system sources, so that
.Sq "make obj"
will work correctly.
Default:
.Pa /usr/src .
.It Sy BUILD
If defined,
.Sq "make install"
checks that the targets in the source directories are up-to-date and
remakes them if they are out of date, instead of blindly trying to install
out of date or non-existent targets.
.It Sy COPTS
Extra options for the C compiler.
Should be appended to (e.g.,
.Sy COPTS+=-g ) ,
rather than explicitly set.
.It Sy MANZ
Install manual pages compressed with
.Xr gzip 1 .
.It Sy MKCATPAGES
If
.Sq no ,
don't build or install the formatted manual pages.
.It Sy MKDOC
If
.Sq no ,
don't build or install the miscellaneous documentation.
.It Sy MKINFO
If
.Sq no ,
don't build or install the TeXinfo Info documentation.
.It Sy MKLINT
If
.Sq no ,
don't build or install the lint libraries.
.It Sy MKMAN
If
.Sq no ,
don't build or install the manual pages.
Sets
.Sy MKCATPAGES=no .
.It Sy MKNLS
If
.Sq no ,
don't build or install the NLS (Native Language Support) files.
.It Sy MKOBJ
If
.Sq no ,
don't create objdirs.
.It Sy MKPIC
If
.Sq no ,
don't build or install shared libraries.
.It Sy MKPICINSTALL
If
.Sq no ,
don't install the
.Sq *_pic.a
libraries.
.It Sy MKPROFILE
If
.Sq no ,
don't build or install the
.Sq *_p.a
profiling libraries.
.It Sy MKSHARE
If
.Sq no ,
set
.Sy MKCATPAGES=no ,
.Sy MKDOC=no ,
.Sy MKINFO=no ,
.Sy MKMAN=no ,
.Sy MKNLS=no .
.It Sy OBJMACHINE
If defined, creates objdirs of the form
.Pa obj.<arch> ,
where
.Sq <arch>
is the current architecture (as per
.Sq "uname -m" ) .
.It Sy UPDATE
If defined,
.Sq "make install"
only installs targets that are more recently modified in the source
directories that their installed counterparts.
.El
.Ss Pkgsrc system variables
Please see
.Xr packages 7
for more variables used internally by the package system and
.Pa /usr/pkgsrc/mk/mk.conf.example
for package-specific examples.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /etc/mk.conf
.It Pa /etc/mk.conf
This file.
.It Pa /usr/pkgsrc/mk/mk.conf.example
Examples for settings regarding the pkgsrc collection.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr make 1 ,
.Xr packages 7
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
file appeared in
.Nx 1.2 .