From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 11 12:09:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9741916A675; Thu, 11 May 2006 12:09:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from laszlof@vonostingroup.com) Received: from ritamari.vonostingroup.com (ritamari.vonostingroup.com [216.144.193.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8961343E03; Thu, 11 May 2006 12:09:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from laszlof@vonostingroup.com) Received: from adsl-68-72-248-38.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net ([68.72.248.38] helo=[192.168.1.33]) by ritamari.vonostingroup.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Fe9yk-000BFR-Ox; Thu, 11 May 2006 08:09:15 -0400 Message-ID: <44632963.7020202@vonostingroup.com> Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:09:07 -0400 From: Frank Laszlo User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pav Lucistnik References: <20060508200926.GA6005@daemons.gr> <20060508212441.GB767@picobyte.net> <20060510190606.GH44733@iib.unsam.edu.ar> <0IZ200LU6MUTD391@VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca> <44631677.7040409@vonostingroup.com> <20060511105834.M94745@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060511105834.M94745@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.2.0 OpenPGP: url=http://www.franksworld.org/~laszlof/keys/0x0B3FCA4B.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ritamari.vonostingroup.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [26 6] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - vonostingroup.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Serge Gagnon Subject: Re: ports structure and improvement suggestions X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 12:09:51 -0000 Pav Lucistnik wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2006 06:48:23 -0400, Frank Laszlo wrote > >> Serge Gagnon wrote: >> > > >>> If you're talking about message that the port is saying about KNOB, try >>> grep ECHO Makefile and if you're talking about message while the port is >>> installing stuff, try cat pkg-message before installing this port ;-) >>> >>> >> As I said before, a simple method to fix this problem would be to >> extend the way OPTIONS works, where we create a new target to list >> possibly options for the port, and require maintainers to keep it up >> to date. i.e. >> >> # make options >> ===> Options for foo/bar. >> WITH_BAR Build port with support for bar >> WITH_FOO blah >> WITH_A blah blah... >> >> This would be fairly simple to implement using the current way >> OPTIONS are handled, I'll add this to my list of todo items. >> > > We already have this. Tried make showconfig? > This only shows currently configured options and depends on the existence of _OPTIONSFILE. I would like to see a target that shows user configurable options BEFORE they are built/configured. __________________________________________________ Frank Laszlo System Administrator The VonOstin Group Email: laszlof@tvog.net WWW: http://www.vonostingroup.com Mobile: 248-863-7584