Finding options for ports

[Frank Laszlo]

Michael C. Shultz wrote:

>On Monday 15 November 2004 12:18 pm, Kill the Penguin wrote:
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>>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
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>To find "WITH" type options I just do the following:
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>cat Makefile | grep WITH
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>Hope this helps some...
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>-Mike
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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