Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:17:31 -0700 From: Carl <k0802647@telus.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: building a port with very long list of build options Message-ID: <4DB0F34B.9030008@telus.net>
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Let's say I want to build a port for which I need to specify a huge number of build options (eg. ghostscript). In my case I am cross-compiling on an amd64 host for what will be a NanoBSD i386 target, but I don't think that's important here. The scenario precludes using the familiar configuration menu. The problem is that the desired list of options far exceeds what would be sane to specify on the 'make' command line. In fact, it apparently even exceeds what typical text editors tolerate when trying to enter the line in a shell script. What is the recommended solution? Given that I do not want to customize the port's Makefile, I was hoping 'make' would support a command line option that would let me simply point to a separate file containing the list of variables to add, one per line. It's not apparent to me that that exists. Carl / K0802647
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