Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 19:59:38 +0100 From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> To: FreeBSD questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to find out available "make" arguments Message-ID: <20030502185938.GA22693@users.munk.nu> In-Reply-To: <3EB2B0E4.5000309@netscape.net> References: <3EB2B0E4.5000309@netscape.net>
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On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 01:54:44PM -0400, E. J. Cerejo wrote:
> How do I find which arguments are available for a particular port using
> the make command?
In general read through the Makefile for the port and look for lines
that have 'if .defined' in them.
For example taking /usr/ports/www/apache13/Makefile:
===================================================================
.if defined(WITH_APACHE_SUEXEC) && ${WITH_APACHE_SUEXEC} == yes
.if defined(APACHE_SUEXEC_UMASK)
.if defined(APACHE_HARD_SERVER_LIMIT)
===================================================================
the defined() arguments here indicate that you could issue:
make -DWITH_APAPCHE_SUEXEC
to make apache with the suexec functionality (maybe a bad example
here I think there's more needed to actually include suexec support in
apache!). Generally though this is how it works.
For information regarding targets to 'make' read:
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.ports.mk
in there you'll find:
# Default targets and their behaviors:
#
# fetch - Retrieves ${DISTFILES} (and ${PATCHFILES} if defined)
# into ${DISTDIR} as necessary.
<snip>
which describes what targets the ports make command can build.
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