Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:18:49 -0800 From: Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org> To: hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com (George Hartzell) Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is there a standard for "knob" documentation? Message-ID: <3CA48977-0EF1-11D7-96A5-000393460DB2@soupnazi.org> In-Reply-To: <15862.16850.579190.813699@rosebud.alerce.com>
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On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 11:34 AM, George Hartzell wrote:
>
> Is there a standard place for a port to document the various build,
> install, and/or package-time KNOBS that they support/require?
>
> I've been confused at times as I build/install stuff, and have watched
> heads-ups go by about various ports (e.g. building uw-imap to support
> unencrypted connections, vnc and the WITHOUT_SERVER knob).
>
> I've taken to skimming all of the files in the port to see if
> anythings rings a bell, but long for something like a pkg-README file
> that would give me a heads-up.
>
> Is there a standard place that I should be looking?
In the port's Makefile.
- jim
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