Okay D'Arcy...found a purpose to Makefile.custom *grin*:

# If your OS requires these libraries, they should be put in
# Makefile.custom with a line similar to:
# X11_LIB+= -lsocket -lnsl

Actually, those should probably go into the ports/Makefile.inc's, but...

diff --git a/src/Makefile.global b/src/Makefile.global
index ec72996864abcc2117d1acfc0b0727064a4578f9..60565d212126c781792d2ce9f1067f92a5f84b43 100644 (file)
--- a/src/Makefile.global
+++ b/src/Makefile.global
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 #
 #
 # IDENTIFICATION
-#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/Attic/Makefile.global,v 1.19.2.12 1996/10/25 09:24:56 scrappy Exp $
+#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/Attic/Makefile.global,v 1.19.2.13 1996/10/25 09:26:56 scrappy Exp $
 #
 # NOTES
 #    This is seen by any Makefiles that include mk/postgres.mk. To
@@ -226,7 +226,10 @@ TK_LIB = -ltk4.1
 
 X11_INCDIR = /usr/include
 X11_LIBDIR = /usr/lib
-X11_LIB = -lX11 -lsocket -lnsl
+# If your OS requires these libraries, they should be put in
+# Makefile.custom with a line similar to:
+# X11_LIB+= -lsocket -lnsl
+X11_LIB = -lX11 
 
 #
 # include port specific rules and variables. For instance: