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Date:      Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:38:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
To:        mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CVSup conceptual question
Message-ID:  <199910141338.JAA24572@world.std.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991014141655.A1316@marder-1> (message from Mark Ovens on Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:16:55 %2B0100)
References:  <87g0zevk9o.fsf@main.wgaf.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910132251480.96187-100000@peloton.runet.edu> <19991014115040.B328@marder-1> <rd6n1tmnmpc.fsf@world.std.com> <19991014141655.A1316@marder-1>

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   Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:16:55 +0100
   From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>

   Is there a definitive and complete list of *all* the options that
   can be used with ``make'' in the ports tree? There hardly seems to
   be a week go by without me reading about Yet Another Make Option
   that I didn't know about.

There isn't, really.  I tried
grep ^[a-zA-Z]*: /usr/ports/Mk/*
and it matched 52 lines, which means there are probably that many
targets.  The vast majority of them aren't useful to most users,
though, so I'm not sure it would help to document them collectively.
[and because you get a usable INDEX file through cvsup, I'm not sure
I'd recommend "make index" to the average user]  

The main makefile itself has comments documenting the dozen or so most
targets that an end user might actually want.  Along with an awful lot
of variables.


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