From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 14:27:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D9716A41F for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:27:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206BB43D53 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:27:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EuW5G-000669-1W for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:27:18 +0100 Received: from c-24-147-87-49.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.147.87.49]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:27:18 +0100 Received: from jdarnold by c-24-147-87-49.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:27:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: JD Arnold Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:27:12 -0500 Organization: Amazing Developments Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-147-87-49.hsd1.ma.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) In-Reply-To: Sender: news Subject: Re: make targets, was: Running qmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:27:32 -0000 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 12/18/05, Shantanoo Mahajan wrote: >> Daemontools can be found out by: >> >> cd /usr/ports && make search name=daemontools > > Where are these make options in ports documented? I'd like to know all > of the options available in ports. I usually just cd /usr/ports && ls > -d */*daemontools* 1] There is a script for searching the ports too. Check out /usr/ports/Tools/scripts for the portsearch script, and it's "man" page, README.portsearch. Plenty of search options in there. 2] I normally just use the freebsd.org ports web page to search for a port. It has the best interface. 3] I talk about the ports Makefile here: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000140.html > A target that tells me what a port has in the way of options would be nice too. For that, you just need to read the Makefile in the port folder. It's usually pretty self explanatory. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are.