From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 23 13: 2:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F407437B406 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:02:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.46.72]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA2D04; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:08:48 -0700 Message-ID: <3B5C82C0.89F40895@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:02:08 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kevin godfrey Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports References: <3B5BAD53.2D6D20C5@ticktockman.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org kevin godfrey wrote: > > Can anyone point me to massive amounts of information about using ports? > > Specifically, where I can find all the options for make? Take a look at the global makefile for the ports. They are well commented. The Porter's Handbook also has lots of good information. David p.s. I just discovered portupdate under /usr/ports/misc. I don't know how I lived without it for so long. Something like this needs to be a standard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message