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27.Dd September 27, 2018
28.Dt MAKE.CONF 5
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm make.conf
32.Nd system build information
33.Sh DESCRIPTION
34The file
35.Nm
36contains system-wide settings that will apply to every build using
37.Xr make 1
38and the standard
39.Pa sys.mk
40file.
41This is achieved as follows:
42.Xr make 1
43processes the system makefile
44.Pa sys.mk
45before any other file by default, and
46.Pa sys.mk
47includes
48.Nm .
49.Pp
50The file
51.Nm
52uses the standard makefile syntax.
53However,
54.Nm
55should not specify any dependencies to
56.Xr make 1 .
57Instead,
58.Nm
59is to set
60.Xr make 1
61variables that control the actions of other makefiles.
62.Pp
63The default location of
64.Nm
65is
66.Pa /etc/make.conf ,
67though an alternative location can be specified in the
68.Xr make 1
69variable
70.Va __MAKE_CONF .
71You may need to override the location of
72.Nm
73if the system-wide settings are not suitable for a particular build.
74For instance, setting
75.Va __MAKE_CONF
76to
77.Pa /dev/null
78effectively resets all build controls to their defaults.
79.Pp
80The primary purpose of
81.Nm
82is to control the compilation of the
83.Fx
84sources, documentation, and ported applications,
85which are usually found in
86.Pa /usr/src ,
87.Pa /usr/doc ,
88and
89.Pa /usr/ports .
90As a rule, the system administrator creates
91.Nm
92when the values of certain control variables need to be changed
93from their defaults.
94.Pp
95The system build procedures occur in four broad areas:
96the world, the kernel, documentation and ports.
97Variables set in
98.Nm
99may be applicable in one, two, or all four of these areas.
100In addition, control variables can be specified
101for a particular build via the
102.Fl D
103option of
104.Xr make 1
105or in
106.Xr environ 7 .
107In the case of world and kernel builds it is possible to put these variables
108into
109.Xr src.conf 5
110instead of
111.Nm .
112This way the environment for documentation and ports builds is not polluted
113by unrelated variables.
114.Pp
115The following lists provide a name and short description for each
116variable you can use during the indicated builds.
117The values of
118variables flagged as
119.Vt bool
120are ignored; the variable being
121set at all (even to
122.Dq Li FALSE
123or
124.Dq Li NO )
125causes it to
126be treated as if it were set.
127.Pp
128The following list provides a name and short description for variables
129that are used for all builds, or are used by the
130.Pa makefiles
131for things other than builds.
132.Bl -tag -width Ar
133.It Va ALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE
134.Pq Vt bool
135Instructs the top-level makefile in the source tree (normally
136.Pa /usr/src )
137to always check if
138.Xr make 1
139is up-to-date.
140Normally this is only done for the world and buildworld targets to handle
141upgrades from older versions of
142.Fx .
143.It Va CFLAGS
144.Pq Vt str
145Controls the compiler setting when compiling C code.
146Optimization levels other than
147.Fl O
148and
149.Fl O2
150are not supported.
151.It Va CPUTYPE
152.Pq Vt str
153Controls which processor should be targeted for generated
154code.
155This controls processor-specific optimizations in
156certain code (currently only OpenSSL) as well as modifying
157the value of
158.Va CFLAGS
159and
160.Va COPTFLAGS
161to contain the appropriate optimization directive to
162.Xr cc 1 .
163The automatic setting of
164.Va CFLAGS
165may be overridden using the
166.Va NO_CPU_CFLAGS
167variable.
168Refer to
169.Pa /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf
170for a list of recognized
171.Va CPUTYPE
172options.
173.It Va CXXFLAGS
174.Pq Vt str
175Controls the compiler settings when compiling C++ code.
176.Va CXXFLAGS
177is initially set to the value of
178.Va CFLAGS .
179If you want to
180add to the
181.Va CXXFLAGS
182value, use
183.Dq Li +=
184instead of
185.Dq Li = .
186.It Va DTC
187.Pq Vt str
188Select the compiler for DTS (Device Tree Syntax) file.
189.Va DTC
190is initially set to the value of dtc
191.It Va INSTALL
192.Pq Vt str
193the default install command.
194To install only files for which the target differs or does not exist, use
195.Bd -literal -offset indent
196INSTALL+= -C
197.Ed
198Note that some makefiles (including those in
199.Pa /usr/share/mk )
200may hardcode options for the supplied install command.
201.It Va LOCAL_DIRS
202.Pq Vt str
203List any directories that should be entered when doing
204make's in
205.Pa /usr/src
206in this variable.
207.It Va MAKE_SHELL
208.Pq Vt str
209Controls the shell used internally by
210.Xr make 1
211to process the command scripts in makefiles.
212.Xr sh 1 ,
213.Xr ksh 1 ,
214and
215.Xr csh 1
216all currently supported.
217.Pp
218.Dl "MAKE_SHELL?=sh"
219.It Va MTREE_FOLLOWS_SYMLINKS
220.Pq Vt str
221Set this to
222.Dq Fl L
223to cause
224.Xr mtree 8
225to follow symlinks.
226.It Va NO_CPU_CFLAGS
227.Pq Vt str
228Setting this variable will prevent CPU specific compiler flags
229from being automatically added to
230.Va CFLAGS
231during compile time.
232.It Va NO_DOCUPDATE
233.Pq Vt bool
234Set this to not update the doc tree during
235.Dq Li "make update" .
236.It Va NO_PORTSUPDATE
237.Pq Vt bool
238Set this to not update the ports tree during
239.Dq Li "make update" .
240.It Va SVN_UPDATE
241.Pq Vt bool
242Set this to use
243.Xr svn 1
244or
245.Xr svnlite 1
246to update your
247.Pa src
248tree with
249.Dq Li "make update" .
250Note that you can set
251.Va SVN
252to the full path of a
253.Xr svn 1
254binary.
255.El
256.Ss "BUILDING THE KERNEL"
257The following list provides a name and short description for variables
258that are only used doing a kernel build:
259.Bl -tag -width Ar
260.It Va BOOTWAIT
261.Pq Vt int
262Controls the amount of time the kernel waits for a console keypress
263before booting the default kernel.
264The value is approximately milliseconds.
265Keypresses are accepted by the BIOS before booting from disk,
266making it possible to give custom boot parameters even when this is
267set to 0.
268.It Va COPTFLAGS
269.Pq Vt str
270Controls the compiler settings when building the
271kernel.
272Optimization levels above
273.Oo Fl O ( O2 , No ...\& ) Oc
274are not guaranteed to work.
275.It Va KERNCONF
276.Pq Vt str
277Controls which kernel configurations will be
278built by
279.Dq Li "${MAKE} buildkernel"
280and installed by
281.Dq Li "${MAKE} installkernel" .
282For example,
283.Bd -literal -offset indent
284KERNCONF=MINE DEBUG GENERIC OTHERMACHINE
285.Ed
286.Pp
287will build the kernels specified by the config files
288.Pa MINE , DEBUG , GENERIC ,
289and
290.Pa OTHERMACHINE ,
291and install the kernel specified by the config file
292.Pa MINE .
293It defaults to
294.Pa GENERIC .
295.It Va MODULES_OVERRIDE
296.Pq Vt str
297Set to a list of modules to build instead of all of them.
298.It Va NO_KERNELCLEAN
299.Pq Vt bool
300Set this to skip running
301.Dq Li "${MAKE} clean"
302during
303.Dq Li "${MAKE} buildkernel" .
304.It Va NO_KERNELCONFIG
305.Pq Vt bool
306Set this to skip running
307.Xr config 8
308during
309.Dq Li "${MAKE} buildkernel" .
310.It Va NO_KERNELOBJ
311.Pq Vt bool
312Set this to skip running
313.Dq Li "${MAKE} obj"
314during
315.Dq Li "${MAKE} buildkernel" .
316.It Va NO_MODULES
317.Pq Vt bool
318Set to not build modules with the kernel.
319.It Va PORTS_MODULES
320Set this to the list of ports you wish to rebuild every time the kernel
321is built.
322.It Va WITHOUT_MODULES
323.Pq Vt str
324Set to a list of modules to exclude from the build.
325This provides a
326somewhat easier way to exclude modules you are certain you will never
327need than specifying
328.Va MODULES_OVERRIDE .
329This is applied
330.Em after
331.Va MODULES_OVERRIDE .
332.El
333.Ss "BUILDING THE WORLD"
334The following list provides a name and short description for variables
335that are used during the world build:
336.Bl -tag -width Ar
337.It Va BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT
338.Pq Vt str
339The port address to use for the console if the boot blocks have
340been configured to use a serial console instead of the keyboard/video card.
341.It Va BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED
342.Pq Vt int
343The baud rate to use for the console if the boot blocks have
344been configured to use a serial console instead of the keyboard/video card.
345.It Va BOOT_PXELDR_ALWAYS_SERIAL
346.Pq Vt bool
347Compile in the code into
348.Xr pxeboot 8
349that forces the use of a serial console.
350This is analogous to the
351.Fl h
352option in
353.Xr boot 8
354blocks.
355.It Va BOOT_PXELDR_PROBE_KEYBOARD
356.Pq Vt bool
357Compile in the code into
358.Xr pxeboot 8
359that probes the keyboard.
360If no keyboard is found, boot with the dual console configuration.
361This is analogous to the
362.Fl D
363option in
364.Xr boot 8
365blocks.
366.It Va ENABLE_SUID_K5SU
367.Pq Vt bool
368Set this if you wish to use the ksu utility.
369Otherwise, it will be
370installed without the set-user-ID bit set.
371.It Va ENABLE_SUID_NEWGRP
372.Pq Vt bool
373Set this to install
374.Xr newgrp 1
375with the set-user-ID bit set.
376Otherwise,
377.Xr newgrp 1
378will not be able to change users' groups.
379.It Va LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT
380.Pq Vt bool
381By default the
382.Xr pxeboot 8
383loader retrieves the kernel via NFS.
384Defining this and recompiling
385.Pa /usr/src/stand
386will cause it to retrieve the kernel via TFTP.
387This allows
388.Xr pxeboot 8
389to load a custom BOOTP diskless kernel yet
390still mount the server's
391.Pa /
392rather than load the server's kernel.
393.It Va LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT
394.Pq Vt bool
395Defining this and recompiling
396.Pa /usr/src/stand/i386
397will add
398.Xr dcons 4
399console driver to
400.Xr loader 8
401and allow access over FireWire(IEEE1394) using
402.Xr dconschat 8 .
403Currently, only i386 and amd64 are supported.
404.It Va MALLOC_PRODUCTION
405.Pq Vt bool
406Set this to disable assertions and statistics gathering in
407.Xr malloc 3 .
408It also defaults the A and J runtime options to off.
409Disabled by default on -CURRENT.
410.It Va MAN_ARCH
411.Pq Vt str
412Space-delimited list of one or more MACHINE and/or MACHINE_ARCH values
413for which section 4 man pages will be installed.
414The special value
415.Sq all
416installs all available architectures.
417The default is the MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH being built.
418.It Va MODULES_WITH_WORLD
419.Pq Vt bool
420Set to build modules with the system instead of the kernel.
421.It Va NO_CLEAN
422.Pq Vt bool
423Set this to disable cleaning during
424.Dq Li "make buildworld" .
425This should not be set unless you know what you are doing.
426.It Va NO_CLEANDIR
427.Pq Vt bool
428Set this to run
429.Dq Li "${MAKE} clean"
430instead of
431.Dq Li "${MAKE} cleandir" .
432.It Va WITH_MANCOMPRESS
433.Pq Vt defined
434Set to install manual pages compressed.
435.It Va WITHOUT_MANCOMPRESS
436.Pq Vt defined
437Set to install manual pages uncompressed.
438.It Va NO_SHARE
439.Pq Vt bool
440Set to not build in the
441.Pa share
442subdir.
443.It Va NO_SHARED
444.Pq Vt bool
445Set to build
446.Pa /bin
447and
448.Pa /sbin
449statically linked, this can be bad.
450If set, every utility that uses
451.Pa bsd.prog.mk
452will be linked statically.
453.It Va PPP_NO_NAT
454.Pq Vt bool
455Build
456.Xr ppp 8
457without support for network address translation (NAT).
458.It Va PPP_NO_NETGRAPH
459.Pq Vt bool
460Set to build
461.Xr ppp 8
462without support for Netgraph.
463.It Va PPP_NO_RADIUS
464.Pq Vt bool
465Set to build
466.Xr ppp 8
467without support for RADIUS.
468.It Va PPP_NO_SUID
469.Pq Vt bool
470Set to disable the installation of
471.Xr ppp 8
472as a set-user-ID root program.
473.It Va SENDMAIL_ADDITIONAL_MC
474.Pq Vt str
475Additional
476.Pa .mc
477files which should be built into
478.Pa .cf
479files at build time.
480The value should include the full path to the
481.Pa .mc
482file(s), e.g.,
483.Pa /etc/mail/foo.mc ,
484.Pa /etc/mail/bar.mc .
485.It Va SENDMAIL_ALIASES
486.Pq Vt str
487List of
488.Xr aliases 5
489files to rebuild when using
490.Pa /etc/mail/Makefile .
491The default value is
492.Pa /etc/mail/aliases .
493.It Va SENDMAIL_CFLAGS
494.Pq Vt str
495Flags to pass to the compile command when building
496.Xr sendmail 8 .
497The
498.Va SENDMAIL_*
499flags can be used to provide SASL support with setting such as:
500.Bd -literal -offset indent
501SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL
502SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
503SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl
504.Ed
505.It Va SENDMAIL_CF_DIR
506.Pq Vt str
507Override the default location for the
508.Xr m4 1
509configuration files used to build a
510.Pa .cf
511file from a
512.Pa .mc
513file.
514.It Va SENDMAIL_DPADD
515.Pq Vt str
516Extra dependencies to add when building
517.Xr sendmail 8 .
518.It Va SENDMAIL_LDADD
519.Pq Vt str
520Flags to add to the end of the
521.Xr ld 1
522command when building
523.Xr sendmail 8 .
524.It Va SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS
525.Pq Vt str
526Flags to pass to the
527.Xr ld 1
528command when building
529.Xr sendmail 8 .
530.It Va SENDMAIL_M4_FLAGS
531.Pq Vt str
532Flags passed to
533.Xr m4 1
534when building a
535.Pa .cf
536file from a
537.Pa .mc
538file.
539.It Va SENDMAIL_MAP_PERMS
540.Pq Vt str
541Mode to use when generating alias and map database files using
542.Pa /etc/mail/Makefile .
543The default value is 0640.
544.It Va SENDMAIL_MAP_SRC
545.Pq Vt str
546Additional maps to rebuild when using
547.Pa /etc/mail/Makefile .
548The
549.Pa access ,
550.Pa bitdomain ,
551.Pa domaintable ,
552.Pa genericstable ,
553.Pa mailertable ,
554.Pa uucpdomain ,
555and
556.Pa virtusertable
557maps are always rebuilt if they exist.
558.It Va SENDMAIL_MAP_TYPE
559.Pq Vt str
560Database map type to use when generating map database files using
561.Pa /etc/mail/Makefile .
562The default value is hash.
563The alternative is btree.
564.It Va SENDMAIL_MC
565.Pq Vt str
566The default
567.Xr m4 1
568configuration file to use at install time.
569The value should include the full path to the
570.Pa .mc
571file, e.g.,
572.Pa /etc/mail/myconfig.mc .
573Use with caution as a make install will overwrite any existing
574.Pa /etc/mail/sendmail.cf .
575Note that
576.Va SENDMAIL_CF
577is now deprecated.
578.It Va SENDMAIL_SET_USER_ID
579.Pq Vt bool
580If set, install
581.Xr sendmail 8
582as a set-user-ID root binary instead of a set-group-ID binary
583and do not install
584.Pa /etc/mail/submit.{cf,mc} .
585Use of this flag is not recommended and the alternative advice in
586.Pa /etc/mail/README
587should be followed instead if at all possible.
588.It Va SENDMAIL_START_SCRIPT
589.Pq Vt str
590The script used by
591.Pa /etc/mail/Makefile
592to start, stop, and restart
593.Xr sendmail 8 .
594The default value is
595.Pa /etc/rc.sendmail .
596This value should match the
597.Dq Li mta_start_script
598setting in
599.Xr rc.conf 5 .
600.It Va SENDMAIL_SUBMIT_MC
601.Pq Vt str
602The default
603.Xr m4 1
604configuration file for mail submission
605to use at install time.
606The value should include the full path to the
607.Pa .mc
608file, e.g.,
609.Pa /etc/mail/mysubmit.mc .
610Use with caution as a make install will overwrite any existing
611.Pa /etc/mail/submit.cf .
612.It Va TOP_TABLE_SIZE
613.Pq Vt int
614.Xr top 1
615uses a hash table for the user names.
616The size of this hash can be tuned to match the number of local users.
617The table size should be a prime number
618approximately twice as large as the number of lines in
619.Pa /etc/passwd .
620The default number is 20011.
621.It Va WANT_FORCE_OPTIMIZATION_DOWNGRADE
622.Pq Vt int
623Causes the system compiler to be built such that it forces high optimization
624levels to a lower one.
625.Xr cc 1
626.Fl O2
627and above is known to trigger known optimizer bugs at various
628times.
629The value assigned is the highest optimization value used.
630.El
631.Ss "BUILDING DOCUMENTATION"
632The following list provides a name and short description for variables
633that are used when building documentation.
634.Bl -tag -width ".Va PRINTERDEVICE"
635.It Va DISTDIR
636.Pq Vt str
637Where distfiles are kept.
638Normally, this is
639.Pa distfiles
640in
641.Va PORTSDIR .
642.It Va DOC_LANG
643.Pq Vt str
644The list of languages and encodings to build and install.
645.It Va PRINTERDEVICE
646.Pq Vt str
647The default format for system documentation, depends on your
648printer.
649This can be set to
650.Dq Li ascii
651for simple printers, or
652.Dq Li ps
653for postscript or graphics printers with a ghostscript
654filter, or both.
655.El
656.Ss "BUILDING PORTS"
657Several make variables can be set that affect the building of ports.
658These variables and their effects are documented in
659.Xr ports 7 ,
660.Pa ${PORTSDIR}/Mk/*
661and the
662.Fx
663Porter's Handbook.
664.Sh FILES
665.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf" -compact
666.It Pa /etc/make.conf
667.It Pa /usr/doc/Makefile
668.It Pa /usr/ports/Makefile
669.It Pa /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf
670.It Pa /usr/share/mk/sys.mk
671.It Pa /usr/src/Makefile
672.It Pa /usr/src/Makefile.inc1
673.El
674.Sh SEE ALSO
675.Xr cc 1 ,
676.Xr install 1 ,
677.Xr make 1 ,
678.Xr src.conf 5 ,
679.Xr style.Makefile 5 ,
680.Xr environ 7 ,
681.Xr ports 7 ,
682.Xr sendmail 8
683.Sh HISTORY
684The
685.Nm
686file appeared sometime before
687.Fx 4.0 .
688.Sh AUTHORS
689This
690manual page was written by
691.An Mike W. Meyer Aq Mt mwm@mired.org .
692.Sh CAVEATS
693Note, that
694.Ev MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
695and
696.Ev MAKEOBJDIR
697are environment variables and should not be set in
698.Nm
699or as command line arguments to
700.Xr make 1 ,
701but in make's environment.
702.Sh BUGS
703This manual page may occasionally be out of date with respect to
704the options currently available for use in
705.Nm .
706Please check the
707.Pa /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf
708file for the latest options which are available.
709