From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Aug 22 18:47:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0689937B43E; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 18:47:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.130.111.2] (deneb [128.130.111.2]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA24230; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 03:47:33 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 03:47:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: will@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/20788: ports make machinery lacks `make help` In-Reply-To: <200008230142.SAA00590@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 will@FreeBSD.org wrote: > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-Why: > We have a manpage, ports(7), for this purpose. Ah, that one's nice indeed! :-) But, why don't we just refer to this manpage if the user enters `make help`? example% make help Please refer to the ports man page (man ports). example% Gerald PS: FreeBSD is nice if you know how to use it, but sometimes it's just a bit harder than necessary to find out *how* to do so. :-/ -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message