From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 21:29:34 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 E503F16A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:29:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ion.franksworld.org (vhost.domainatlantic.com [67.18.185.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 785C243D41 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:29:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from laszlof@vonostingroup.com) Received: (qmail 39558 invoked by uid 98); 15 Nov 2004 16:34:14 -0000 Received: from laszlof@vonostingroup.com by ion.franksworld.org by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamdscan: 0.75.1. Clear:RC:0(68.72.248.38):SA:0(?/?):. Processed in 3.110025 secs); 15 Nov 2004 16:34:14 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=? required=? Received: from unknown (HELO vonostingroup.com) (frank@cpmsg.com@68.72.248.38) by vhost.domainatlantic.com with SMTP; 15 Nov 2004 16:34:10 -0000 Message-ID: <41991FB5.8010605@vonostingroup.com> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:29:25 -0500 From: Frank Laszlo User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael C. Shultz" References: <200411151324.09969.ringworm@inbox.lv> In-Reply-To: <200411151324.09969.ringworm@inbox.lv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Finding options for ports 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: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:29:35 -0000 Michael C. Shultz wrote: >On Monday 15 November 2004 12:18 pm, Kill the Penguin wrote: > > >>I've ran into this sort of problem from time to time. How do you find >>and specify options in those ports that don't present a banner. For >>example, the php4 port has many options listed in the Makefile.ext >>file, but it's not clear how to turn these on. I looked through the >>ports docs again and I don't see anything like "make showoptions". >>Can someone give me a clue? >> >>Chris >> >>Only adults have difficulty with childproof caps. >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > >To find "WITH" type options I just do the following: > >cat Makefile | grep WITH > >Hope this helps some... > > >-Mike > > I believe I brought up the idea of "showoptions" in a previous post. Maybe we should bring it back up :) We should really have a standard file/section to denote these options in an easily readable format. We cant assume that normal users are going to open up the Makefile and look around aimlessly for them. anyways, just my 2 cents. Regards, Frank Laszlo