From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 05:03:13 2004 Return-Path: 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 8D6DA16A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 05:03:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail3.speakeasy.net (mail3.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBDB443D41 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 05:03:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdarnold@buddydog.org) Received: (qmail 5902 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2004 13:03:12 -0000 Received: from dsl092-076-225.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO buddydog.org) ([66.92.76.225]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Mar 2004 13:03:12 -0000 Message-ID: <4061873F.40300@buddydog.org> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:03:59 -0500 From: Jonathan Arnold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040310 MultiZilla/1.6.0.0e X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20040322034013.40925.qmail@web25002.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040322034013.40925.qmail@web25002.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: make options X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:03:13 -0000 Tadimeti Keshav wrote: > I am trying to install some ports. But I do not know > the various options we can specify during make such as > WITH_GUI=yes > > How can I know them for a given port? As mentioned, one place is the Makefile found in the ports directory. But there's lots of other more general places too. I've slowly been discovering them and adding pointers to them in my web blog. Search on "port makefile" on my blog to get two entries. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/