What is the difference between these two options?

[fender0107401]

1. From handbook 24.7 Rebuilding “world”:

Add this line to make.conf to aboid compiling profiled libraries.

NO_PROFILE=    true     #    Avoid compiling profiled libraries

But I can't find anything about this in make.conf's manpage.

2. From src.conf's manpage:

WITHOUT_PROFILE
             Set to avoid compiling profiled libraries.

System:

> uname -a
FreeBSD PC-686.Workstation 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #2: Fri Nov 20 16:03:30 CST 2009     fender@PC-686.Workstation:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL  amd64

 

[DutchDaemon]

Use the /etc/src.conf option. It's the new(er) way of deciding what, and what not to build - src.conf(5).

 

[fender0107401]

I got.

 

[phoenix]

/etc/make.conf options apply to both the FreeBSD source tree and the ports tree.

/etc/src.conf options only apply to the FreeBSD source tree. They're trying to separate out the ports building options from the world building options.

 

[DutchDaemon]

For completeness' sake

The src.conf file uses the standard makefile syntax. However, src.conf should not specify any dependencies to make(1). Instead, src.conf is to set make(1) variables that control the aspects of how the system builds.

The only purpose of src.conf is to control the compilation of the FreeBSD source code, which is usually located in /usr/src. As a rule, the system administrator creates src.conf when the values of certain control variables need to be changed from their defaults.