Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:46:21 +0100 From: David Baird <lists.riverside@gmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question about compile options Message-ID: <db27cbbb0508100246580343d1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.2.20050809182744.06b19b60@cobalt.antimatter.net> References: <20050810010510.GA70073@skytracker.ca> <6.1.0.6.2.20050809182744.06b19b60@cobalt.antimatter.net>
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On 8/10/05, Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> wrote: > At 06:05 PM 8/9/2005, David Banning wrote: > >I am wondering how to know what compile options are available for > >a given ports package. > > from ports(7) man page: > > TARGETS > Some of the targets work recursively through subdirectories. This lets > you, for example, install all of the ``biology'' ports. The targets that > do this are build, checksum, clean, configure, depends, extract, fetch, > install, and package. > > The following targets will be run automatically by each proceeding target > in order. That is, build will be run (if necessary) by install, and so > on all the way to fetch. Usually, you will only use the install target. > > config Configure OPTIONS for this port using dialog(1). > I have wondered about this as well. make config only deals with interactive options, AFAIK. make configure seems to give a bit more information, but that seems to depend on the port. For instance, apache gives lots of information about loading modules. Is it just a case of hunting down the documentation for a particular package, or is there a generic way to list available compile options? d.
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