Compiling for the first time (more or less)

RW list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com
Wed Sep 7 05:49:18 PDT 2005


On Tuesday 06 September 2005 23:48, Derrill Guilbert wrote:
> So, my next question is, how does one know that the wonderful and
> brilliant FreeBSD port squad already took care of things like this? I
> assume that it is documented somewhere, but I didn't see it on the
> description page for the port.

The config menu would have appeared anyway the first time you tried to build 
the port, and again each time the options change. The Makefile is another 
place to look for options.


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