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# 8.4 Environment Variables

`CVSROOT`

  Location of the CVS tree. We suggest you set this variable, if you use the CVSup method:

      # CVSROOT=/usr/dcvs; export CVSROOT

  `CVSROOT` is an environment variable. You must set it on the command line or in your dot files (e.g., `~/.profile`). The exact syntax will differ depending on your shell (the above example is for bash and bash-like shells).

`ENGLISH_ONLY`

  If set and not empty, the makefiles will build and install only the English documents. All translations will be ignored. E.g.:

      # make ENGLISH_ONLY=YES all install

  If you want to unset the variable `ENGLISH_ONLY` and build all pages, including translations, set the variable `ENGLISH_ONLY` to an empty value:

      # make ENGLISH_ONLY="" all install clean

`WEB_ONLY`

  If set and not empty, the Makefiles will build and install only the HTML pages from the `www` directory. All documents from the `doc` directory (Handbook, FAQ, Tutorials) will be ignored. E.g.:

      # make WEB_ONLY=YES all install

`WEB_LANG`

  If set, the Makefiles will build and install only for the languages specified by this variable inside the `www` directory. All other languages except English will be ignored. E.g.:

      # make WEB_LANG="el es hu nl" all install

`NOPORTSCVS`

  If set, the Makefiles will not checkout files from the ports CVS repository. Instead, it will copy the files from `/usr/ports` (or where the variable `PORTSBASE` points to).

`WEB_ONLY`, `WEB_LANG`, `ENGLISH_ONLY` and `NOPORTSCVS` are make variables. You can set the variables in `/etc/make.conf`, `Makefile.inc`, as environment variables on the command line, or in your dot files.

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