Re: Meaning of various pkgsrc variables

[Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hello Mayuresh, 

Mayuresh writes:
> [...]
> But I am still not clear:
>
> E.g. there are many make files that say
> BUILD_DEFS+=            VARBASE
>
> I understand VARBASE. But why is that needed to be a BUILD_DEFS variable?
> What is affected if I don't add it to BUILD_DEFS? And what other such
> variables shall one worry about adding to BUILD_DEFS?
> [...]

In that way after they are installed they can be queried via
`pkg_info -Q <pkg>' too.