xref: /freebsd/share/man/man5/make.conf.5 (revision 63a938566d524836885917d95bd491aa4400b181)
1.\" Copyright (c) 2000
2.\"	Mike W. Meyer
3.\"
4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
6.\" are met:
7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
8.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
10.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
11.\"    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
12.\"
13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND
14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE
17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
23.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
24.\"
25.\" $FreeBSD$
26.\"
27.Dd February 23, 2017
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 .
107.Pp
108The following lists provide a name and short description for each
109variable you can use during the indicated builds.
110The values of
111variables flagged as
112.Vt bool
113are ignored; the variable being
114set at all (even to
115.Dq Li FALSE
116or
117.Dq Li NO )
118causes it to
119be treated as if it were set.
120.Pp
121The following list provides a name and short description for variables
122that are used for all builds, or are used by the
123.Pa makefiles
124for things other than builds.
125.Bl -tag -width Ar
126.It Va ALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE
127.Pq Vt bool
128Instructs the top-level makefile in the source tree (normally
129.Pa /usr/src )
130to always check if
131.Xr make 1
132is up-to-date.
133Normally this is only done for the world and buildworld targets to handle
134upgrades from older versions of
135.Fx .
136.It Va CFLAGS
137.Pq Vt str
138Controls the compiler setting when compiling C code.
139Optimization levels other than
140.Fl O
141and
142.Fl O2
143are not supported.
144.It Va CPUTYPE
145.Pq Vt str
146Controls which processor should be targeted for generated
147code.
148This controls processor-specific optimizations in
149certain code (currently only OpenSSL) as well as modifying
150the value of
151.Va CFLAGS
152and
153.Va COPTFLAGS
154to contain the appropriate optimization directive to
155.Xr cc 1 .
156The automatic setting of
157.Va CFLAGS
158may be overridden using the
159.Va NO_CPU_CFLAGS
160variable.
161Refer to
162.Pa /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf
163for a list of recognized
164.Va CPUTYPE
165options.
166.It Va CXXFLAGS
167.Pq Vt str
168Controls the compiler settings when compiling C++ code.
169.Va CXXFLAGS
170is initially set to the value of
171.Va CFLAGS .
172If you want to
173add to the
174.Va CXXFLAGS
175value, use
176.Dq Li +=
177instead of
178.Dq Li = .
179.It Va DTC
180.Pq Vt str
181Select the compiler for DTS (Device Tree Syntax) file.
182.Va DTC
183is initially set to the value of dtc
184.It Va INSTALL
185.Pq Vt str
186the default install command.
187To install only files for which the target differs or does not exist, use
188.Bd -literal -offset indent
189INSTALL+= -C
190.Ed
191Note that some makefiles (including those in
192.Pa /usr/share/mk )
193may hardcode options for the supplied install command.
194.It Va LOCAL_DIRS
195.Pq Vt str
196List any directories that should be entered when doing
197make's in
198.Pa /usr/src
199in this variable.
200.It Va MAKE_SHELL
201.Pq Vt str
202Controls the shell used internally by
203.Xr make 1
204to process the command scripts in makefiles.
205.Xr sh 1 ,
206.Xr ksh 1 ,
207and
208.Xr csh 1
209all currently supported.
210.Pp
211.Dl "MAKE_SHELL?=sh"
212.It Va MTREE_FOLLOWS_SYMLINKS
213.Pq Vt str
214Set this to
215.Dq Fl L
216to cause
217.Xr mtree 8
218to follow symlinks.
219.It Va NO_CPU_CFLAGS
220.Pq Vt str
221Setting this variable will prevent CPU specific compiler flags
222from being automatically added to
223.Va CFLAGS
224during compile time.
225.It Va NO_DOCUPDATE
226.Pq Vt bool
227Set this to not update the doc tree during
228.Dq Li "make update" .
229.It Va NO_PORTSUPDATE
230.Pq Vt bool
231Set this to not update the ports tree during
232.Dq Li "make update" .
233.It Va SVN_UPDATE
234.Pq Vt bool
235Set this to use
236.Xr svn 1
237to update your
238.Pa src
239tree with
240.Dq Li "make update" .
241Note that since a subversion client is not included in the base system,
242you will need to set
243.Va SVN
244to the full path of a
245.Xr svn 1
246binary.
247.El
248.Ss "BUILDING THE KERNEL"
249The following list provides a name and short description for variables
250that are only used doing a kernel build:
251.Bl -tag -width Ar
252.It Va BOOTWAIT
253.Pq Vt int
254Controls the amount of time the kernel waits for a console keypress
255before booting the default kernel.
256The value is approximately milliseconds.
257Keypresses are accepted by the BIOS before booting from disk,
258making it possible to give custom boot parameters even when this is
259set to 0.
260.It Va COPTFLAGS
261.Pq Vt str
262Controls the compiler settings when building the
263kernel.
264Optimization levels above
265.Oo Fl O ( O2 , No ...\& ) Oc
266are not guaranteed to work.
267.It Va KERNCONF
268.Pq Vt str
269Controls which kernel configurations will be
270built by
271.Dq Li "${MAKE} buildkernel"
272and installed by
273.Dq Li "${MAKE} installkernel" .
274For example,
275.Bd -literal -offset indent
276KERNCONF=MINE DEBUG GENERIC OTHERMACHINE
277.Ed
278.Pp
279will build the kernels specified by the config files
280.Pa MINE , DEBUG , GENERIC ,
281and
282.Pa OTHERMACHINE ,
283and install the kernel specified by the config file
284.Pa MINE .
285It defaults to
286.Pa GENERIC .
287.It Va MODULES_OVERRIDE
288.Pq Vt str
289Set to a list of modules to build instead of all of them.
290.It Va NO_KERNELCLEAN
291.Pq Vt bool
292Set this to skip running
293.Dq Li "${MAKE} clean"
294during
295.Dq Li "${MAKE} buildkernel" .
296.It Va NO_KERNELCONFIG
297.Pq Vt bool
298Set this to skip running
299.Xr config 8
300during
301.Dq Li "${MAKE} buildkernel" .
302.It Va NO_KERNELOBJ
303.Pq Vt bool
304Set this to skip running
305.Dq Li "${MAKE} obj"
306during
307.Dq Li "${MAKE} buildkernel" .
308.It Va NO_MODULES
309.Pq Vt bool
310Set to not build modules with the kernel.
311.It Va PORTS_MODULES
312Set this to the list of ports you wish to rebuild every time the kernel
313is built.
314.It Va WITHOUT_MODULES
315.Pq Vt str
316Set to a list of modules to exclude from the build.
317This provides a
318somewhat easier way to exclude modules you are certain you will never
319need than specifying
320.Va MODULES_OVERRIDE .
321This is applied
322.Em after
323.Va MODULES_OVERRIDE .
324.El
325.Ss "BUILDING THE WORLD"
326The following list provides a name and short description for variables
327that are used during the world build:
328.Bl -tag -width Ar
329.It Va BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT
330.Pq Vt str
331The port address to use for the console if the boot blocks have
332been configured to use a serial console instead of the keyboard/video card.
333.It Va BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED
334.Pq Vt int
335The baud rate to use for the console if the boot blocks have
336been configured to use a serial console instead of the keyboard/video card.
337.It Va BOOT_PXELDR_ALWAYS_SERIAL
338.Pq Vt bool
339Compile in the code into
340.Xr pxeboot 8
341that forces the use of a serial console.
342This is analogous to the
343.Fl h
344option in
345.Xr boot 8
346blocks.
347.It Va BOOT_PXELDR_PROBE_KEYBOARD
348.Pq Vt bool
349Compile in the code into
350.Xr pxeboot 8
351that probes the keyboard.
352If no keyboard is found, boot with the dual console configuration.
353This is analogous to the
354.Fl D
355option in
356.Xr boot 8
357blocks.
358.It Va ENABLE_SUID_K5SU
359.Pq Vt bool
360Set this if you wish to use the ksu utility.
361Otherwise, it will be
362installed without the set-user-ID bit set.
363.It Va ENABLE_SUID_NEWGRP
364.Pq Vt bool
365Set this to install
366.Xr newgrp 1
367with the set-user-ID bit set.
368Otherwise,
369.Xr newgrp 1
370will not be able to change users' groups.
371.It Va LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT
372.Pq Vt bool
373By default the
374.Xr pxeboot 8
375loader retrieves the kernel via NFS.
376Defining this and recompiling
377.Pa /usr/src/stand
378will cause it to retrieve the kernel via TFTP.
379This allows
380.Xr pxeboot 8
381to load a custom BOOTP diskless kernel yet
382still mount the server's
383.Pa /
384rather than load the server's kernel.
385.It Va LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT
386.Pq Vt bool
387Defining this and recompiling
388.Pa /usr/src/stand/i386
389will add
390.Xr dcons 4
391console driver to
392.Xr loader 8
393and allow access over FireWire(IEEE1394) using
394.Xr dconschat 8 .
395Currently, only i386 and amd64 are supported.
396.It Va MALLOC_PRODUCTION
397.Pq Vt bool
398Set this to disable assertions and statistics gathering in
399.Xr malloc 3 .
400It also defaults the A and J runtime options to off.
401Disabled by default on -CURRENT.
402.It Va MODULES_WITH_WORLD
403.Pq Vt bool
404Set to build modules with the system instead of the kernel.
405.It Va NO_CLEAN
406.Pq Vt bool
407Set this to disable cleaning during
408.Dq Li "make buildworld" .
409This should not be set unless you know what you are doing.
410.It Va NO_CLEANDIR
411.Pq Vt bool
412Set this to run
413.Dq Li "${MAKE} clean"
414instead of
415.Dq Li "${MAKE} cleandir" .
416.It Va WITH_MANCOMPRESS
417.Pq Vt defined
418Set to install manual pages compressed.
419.It Va WITHOUT_MANCOMPRESS
420.Pq Vt defined
421Set to install manual pages uncompressed.
422.It Va NO_SHARE
423.Pq Vt bool
424Set to not build in the
425.Pa share
426subdir.
427.It Va NO_SHARED
428.Pq Vt bool
429Set to build
430.Pa /bin
431and
432.Pa /sbin
433statically linked, this can be bad.
434If set, every utility that uses
435.Pa bsd.prog.mk
436will be linked statically.
437.It Va PPP_NO_NAT
438.Pq Vt bool
439Build
440.Xr ppp 8
441without support for network address translation (NAT).
442.It Va PPP_NO_NETGRAPH
443.Pq Vt bool
444Set to build
445.Xr ppp 8
446without support for Netgraph.
447.It Va PPP_NO_RADIUS
448.Pq Vt bool
449Set to build
450.Xr ppp 8
451without support for RADIUS.
452.It Va PPP_NO_SUID
453.Pq Vt bool
454Set to disable the installation of
455.Xr ppp 8
456as a set-user-ID root program.
457.It Va SENDMAIL_ADDITIONAL_MC
458.Pq Vt str
459Additional
460.Pa .mc
461files which should be built into
462.Pa .cf
463files at build time.
464The value should include the full path to the
465.Pa .mc
466file(s), e.g.,
467.Pa /etc/mail/foo.mc ,
468.Pa /etc/mail/bar.mc .
469.It Va SENDMAIL_ALIASES
470.Pq Vt str
471List of
472.Xr aliases 5
473files to rebuild when using
474.Pa /etc/mail/Makefile .
475The default value is
476.Pa /etc/mail/aliases .
477.It Va SENDMAIL_CFLAGS
478.Pq Vt str
479Flags to pass to the compile command when building
480.Xr sendmail 8 .
481The
482.Va SENDMAIL_*
483flags can be used to provide SASL support with setting such as:
484.Bd -literal -offset indent
485SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL
486SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
487SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl
488.Ed
489.It Va SENDMAIL_CF_DIR
490.Pq Vt str
491Override the default location for the
492.Xr m4 1
493configuration files used to build a
494.Pa .cf
495file from a
496.Pa .mc
497file.
498.It Va SENDMAIL_DPADD
499.Pq Vt str
500Extra dependencies to add when building
501.Xr sendmail 8 .
502.It Va SENDMAIL_LDADD
503.Pq Vt str
504Flags to add to the end of the
505.Xr ld 1
506command when building
507.Xr sendmail 8 .
508.It Va SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS
509.Pq Vt str
510Flags to pass to the
511.Xr ld 1
512command when building
513.Xr sendmail 8 .
514.It Va SENDMAIL_M4_FLAGS
515.Pq Vt str
516Flags passed to
517.Xr m4 1
518when building a
519.Pa .cf
520file from a
521.Pa .mc
522file.
523.It Va SENDMAIL_MAP_PERMS
524.Pq Vt str
525Mode to use when generating alias and map database files using
526.Pa /etc/mail/Makefile .
527The default value is 0640.
528.It Va SENDMAIL_MAP_SRC
529.Pq Vt str
530Additional maps to rebuild when using
531.Pa /etc/mail/Makefile .
532The
533.Pa access ,
534.Pa bitdomain ,
535.Pa domaintable ,
536.Pa genericstable ,
537.Pa mailertable ,
538.Pa uucpdomain ,
539and
540.Pa virtusertable
541maps are always rebuilt if they exist.
542.It Va SENDMAIL_MAP_TYPE
543.Pq Vt str
544Database map type to use when generating map database files using
545.Pa /etc/mail/Makefile .
546The default value is hash.
547The alternative is btree.
548.It Va SENDMAIL_MC
549.Pq Vt str
550The default
551.Xr m4 1
552configuration file to use at install time.
553The value should include the full path to the
554.Pa .mc
555file, e.g.,
556.Pa /etc/mail/myconfig.mc .
557Use with caution as a make install will overwrite any existing
558.Pa /etc/mail/sendmail.cf .
559Note that
560.Va SENDMAIL_CF
561is now deprecated.
562.It Va SENDMAIL_SET_USER_ID
563.Pq Vt bool
564If set, install
565.Xr sendmail 8
566as a set-user-ID root binary instead of a set-group-ID binary
567and do not install
568.Pa /etc/mail/submit.{cf,mc} .
569Use of this flag is not recommended and the alternative advice in
570.Pa /etc/mail/README
571should be followed instead if at all possible.
572.It Va SENDMAIL_START_SCRIPT
573.Pq Vt str
574The script used by
575.Pa /etc/mail/Makefile
576to start, stop, and restart
577.Xr sendmail 8 .
578The default value is
579.Pa /etc/rc.sendmail .
580This value should match the
581.Dq Li mta_start_script
582setting in
583.Xr rc.conf 5 .
584.It Va SENDMAIL_SUBMIT_MC
585.Pq Vt str
586The default
587.Xr m4 1
588configuration file for mail submission
589to use at install time.
590The value should include the full path to the
591.Pa .mc
592file, e.g.,
593.Pa /etc/mail/mysubmit.mc .
594Use with caution as a make install will overwrite any existing
595.Pa /etc/mail/submit.cf .
596.It Va TOP_TABLE_SIZE
597.Pq Vt int
598.Xr top 1
599uses a hash table for the user names.
600The size of this hash can be tuned to match the number of local users.
601The table size should be a prime number
602approximately twice as large as the number of lines in
603.Pa /etc/passwd .
604The default number is 20011.
605.It Va WANT_FORCE_OPTIMIZATION_DOWNGRADE
606.Pq Vt int
607Causes the system compiler to be built such that it forces high optimization
608levels to a lower one.
609.Xr cc 1
610.Fl O2
611and above is known to trigger known optimizer bugs at various
612times.
613The value assigned is the highest optimization value used.
614.El
615.Ss "BUILDING DOCUMENTATION"
616The following list provides a name and short description for variables
617that are used when building documentation.
618.Bl -tag -width ".Va PRINTERDEVICE"
619.It Va DISTDIR
620.Pq Vt str
621Where distfiles are kept.
622Normally, this is
623.Pa distfiles
624in
625.Va PORTSDIR .
626.It Va DOC_LANG
627.Pq Vt str
628The list of languages and encodings to build and install.
629.It Va PRINTERDEVICE
630.Pq Vt str
631The default format for system documentation, depends on your
632printer.
633This can be set to
634.Dq Li ascii
635for simple printers, or
636.Dq Li ps
637for postscript or graphics printers with a ghostscript
638filter, or both.
639.El
640.Ss "BUILDING PORTS"
641Several make variables can be set that affect the building of ports.
642These variables and their effects are documented in
643.Xr ports 7 ,
644.Pa ${PORTSDIR}/Mk/*
645and the
646.Fx
647Porter's Handbook.
648.Sh FILES
649.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf" -compact
650.It Pa /etc/make.conf
651.It Pa /usr/doc/Makefile
652.It Pa /usr/ports/Makefile
653.It Pa /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf
654.It Pa /usr/share/mk/sys.mk
655.It Pa /usr/src/Makefile
656.It Pa /usr/src/Makefile.inc1
657.El
658.Sh SEE ALSO
659.Xr cc 1 ,
660.Xr install 1 ,
661.Xr make 1 ,
662.Xr src.conf 5 ,
663.Xr environ 7 ,
664.Xr ports 7 ,
665.Xr sendmail 8
666.Sh HISTORY
667The
668.Nm
669file appeared sometime before
670.Fx 4.0 .
671.Sh AUTHORS
672This
673manual page was written by
674.An Mike W. Meyer Aq Mt mwm@mired.org .
675.Sh CAVEATS
676Note, that
677.Ev MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
678and
679.Ev MAKEOBJDIR
680are environment variables and should not be set in
681.Nm
682or as command line arguments to
683.Xr make 1 ,
684but in make's environment.
685.Sh BUGS
686This manual page may occasionally be out of date with respect to
687the options currently available for use in
688.Nm .
689Please check the
690.Pa /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf
691file for the latest options which are available.
692