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Finding Make Arguments

Ever forget, especially after you've recompiled a port to alleviate a problem,
what arguments you compiled in? Here are a few suggestions as to how to do it:

You could also do this to see if there's a problem:
Check bsd.port.mk(5)
In my particular case, since OpenBSD has some licensing problems with flash and
it's no longer included, at least for the time being, I thought I'd give gnash a try.
Naturally, it's in the ports and packages. The above link is just for reference. It
worked fine on simple stuff, but tended to choke on more complicated stuff and,
possibly, swf files that were created with newer versions of flash. Either way, I
got tired of it barfing up its core. So, instead of using the package like I had been
doing, I did a pkg_delete on it and built it from the port. Later, when talking my
friend, I couldn't remember all the -D arguments I had found in the Makefile and
used, thinking they might help. He suggested the previous items listed above.
What worked for me was:
$ make show=CONFIGURE_ARGS
Hope somewhere along the way, this helps someone out like it did me.

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