General Ports question...

Parv parv at pair.com
Tue Oct 5 17:51:48 PDT 2004


in message <41632C87.1020901 at wingfoot.org>,
wrote Glenn Sieb thusly...
>
> Just a suggestion: It would be *really* nice to have a file in a
> port directory that has all the options you can set on the make
> line (or in pkgtools.conf) ... yes I know you can grep through
> Makefile--but it would still be nice to have a file with all of
> the options and what they mean... :)

I [cw]ould write a tool myself only if the options are described in
not-difficult-to-parse & consistent manner.  I like mail/mutt-devel
Makefile for this reason; don't know if any other port (besides
mail/mutt, you wise cracks) has the same layout.


  - Parv

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