From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 4 18:37:51 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B484738A; Tue, 4 Mar 2014 18:37:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-x234.google.com (mail-ob0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::234]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6C3E888D; Tue, 4 Mar 2014 18:37:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f180.google.com with SMTP id wn1so3025300obc.39 for ; Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:37:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=3NNQCpTWZ2wacghSGqBXaBXoqJiTcxuHVsRqjS6BJK4=; b=qbO6a7hElcEGkq4P8ecA5DbB/q5X9WCMnzXbljBJqoPExKLXIpeMP9Ts0JAn+Wz8ZS IzUqRaVok5TDQGa7aZheHq0XkdieTHoVadD7vhyo7rzHkMku3pxRI2p158+qVc+UbudF aeuIQRrcZxVXmu1YP5LF2oiVEXLyfPHTis5ZJ03Fh6k3/GDLaqETCtSsnA0hlclCLn+R M3kUY8qlO5hCtG076tEO/LwRuYYCDl6oKb1n5PLOY66CYOmIBp+cindmH5Z9ODC2C38b L3q26gcPywS7n7jNs+EUu4lodHtyjAbi8hr83dtd0zTJpWHXS4cLuRKXdNeDMz5Zi/YH zh8Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.66.164 with SMTP id g4mr734673obt.47.1393956623869; Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:10:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.180.164 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Mar 2014 10:10:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5316139F.2060705@ccsys.com> References: <1393935015572-5891423.post@n5.nabble.com> <1393941951560-5891452.post@n5.nabble.com> <20140304144036.GA55200@graf.pompo.net> <5316139F.2060705@ccsys.com> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 10:10:23 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Listing of all available options in ports tree for use in make.conf /ports.conf (WITHOUT_ , WITH_ as well as OPTIONS_SET /UNSET) From: Freddie Cash To: "Chad J. Milios" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: thierry@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 18:37:51 -0000 On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Chad J. Milios wrote: > On 3/4/2014 9:40 AM, Thierry Thomas wrote: > >> Le mar 4 mar 14 =C3=A0 15:05:51 +0100, Jakub Lach >> =C3=A9crivait : >> >>> Thanks for reply! >>> >>> IMHO, port knobs really should be centrally tracked/standardized. >>> When one would like to set some options globally, it gets really >>> ugly really fast e.g. >>> >> It used to be in /usr/ports/KNOBS but it was removed some days ago. >> Anyway, it's still available in svn, and most of the knobs are described >> in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.desc.mk . >> > from within a port's directory, > > make showconfig > > will show you the current options set and > > make __MAKE_CONF=3D/dev/null PORT_DBDIR=3D/var/empty showconfig > > will show you the defaults. > > Hope this is helpful to you > If those two commands aren't in the Handbook (I'm pretty sure the first one is), then they should be considered for inclusion.=E2=80=8B=E2=80=8B Or, m= aybe in the Porter's Handbook? Or maybe ports(7)? I can see the second command being very useful, especially during this transitional stage where people will be migrating/recreating their make.conf files. Something I could have used awhile back, before I just moved to using the binary package repos from PC-BSD. --=20 Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com