Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 21:22:10 +0100 From: Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de> To: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: listing the WITH_* variables for each package Message-ID: <20031116202210.GI556@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> In-Reply-To: <3FB7B686.5080904@mindspring.com> References: <3FB7B686.5080904@mindspring.com>
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> One thing I always find annoying is the necessity to dig through the > Makefiles to look at all the WITH_* variables that are available when > compiling a port. I think there are a couple easy options to do > something better here. > > 1. Have a suggestion in the porter's handbook to list them in pkg-descr. > Along with each WITH variable would be a one line description. This > would be very helpful and not much extra work. > > 2. Create another (optional) file such as pkg-options in each port. It > would simply be a listing of the available WITH options and a one line > description. Experimental or developer-only options could be left out > or marked differently. This would also open additional automated build > possibilities such as doing test builds with all possible subsets of the > WITH variables (obviously this would be time consuming, but wouldn't > need to be done very often). 3. A `make options' target similar to `make maintainer'
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