From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 14 00:33:59 2004 Return-Path: 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 3859616A4CE for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:33:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.cableone.net (scanmail2.cableone.net [24.116.0.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F1143D60 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:33:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from v.velox@vvelox.net) Received: from vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net (unverified [24.119.71.12]) by smail2.cableone.net (SurgeMail 1.9b) with ESMTP id 17356421 for multiple; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:18:02 -0700 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:33:13 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox To: Bob Ababurko Message-ID: <20040913193313.7d2731f5@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20040913200258.01c23148@mail.dc2.adelphia.net> References: <5.2.1.1.0.20040913200258.01c23148@mail.dc2.adelphia.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.10) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: configuration of ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:33:59 -0000 On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:12:13 -0400 Bob Ababurko wrote: > Hello- > > I am sure that this must have been asked, so along with my > question, I > need to know if there is an archive of the ports collection and if > so, where can I find it. > Ok, I am really liking the ports collection, being new to freeBSD > and > all. But the one thing that gets in the way is my lack of knowledge > in being able to configure the installations....either with > .configure config files or with compiler switches. Can someone lead > me to a resource that can help me understand how to configure my > applications so that I can tweak my ports during installation? You may want to check out /etc/defaults/make.conf. Just cp that file to /etc/make.conf. That file is nicely documented in both man and the file it's self. The ports take car of running ./configure it's self. I would suggest reading man ports. It has a lot of nice info in it. The porters handbook may help shed lights on some things? If you want a nice example to look out check out multimedia/mplayer. It has a nice example of all three types of ports base configing there is... Some will bring up a ncurses menu of options, some will display some for a bit before compiling and ect, and then others will have ones not shown in the make file. Install mplayer and more the Makefile :)