From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 23:54:55 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 732A416A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:54:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out006.verizon.net (out006pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F8F43D39 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:54:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm@inbox.lv) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ([4.26.226.89]) by out006.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20041115235454.XOXM4017.out006.verizon.net@ringworm.mechee.com>; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:54:54 -0600 Received: by ringworm.mechee.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6C41A2CE781; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:52:52 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:52:51 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <200411151324.09969.ringworm@inbox.lv> <41991FB5.8010605@vonostingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <41991FB5.8010605@vonostingroup.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200411151552.51786.ringworm@inbox.lv> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out006.verizon.net from [4.26.226.89] at Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:54:53 -0600 cc: Frank Laszlo 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 23:54:55 -0000 On Monday 15 November 2004 01:29 pm, Frank Laszlo wrote: > 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. > I must have missed that post, showoptions would be a nice feature though I agree. -Mike