Building Ports: Is there a "make" equivalent for --batch ?

[Chris Rees]

On 8 Oct 2012 09:38, "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23 at insightbb.com> wrote:
>
> from Polytropon:
>
> > A workaround (and not directly the answer to your question) is
> > to process the config dialogs before starting the build:
>
> >         # make config-recursive
>
> > Once set, the options won't be requested on a second run.
> > According to "man 7 ports", there's a BATCH setting, but
> > it is descibed as:
>
> >         If defined, only operate on a port if it can be
> >         installed 100% automatically.
>
> This helps ("make config-recursive"), but depending on options chosen and
> resulting added dependencies, the config dialog can appear again.  So I
run
> "make config-recursive" repeatedly until it just returns to shell prompt.
> That works most of the time.
>
> My biggest reason for doing this is to be able to run the portmaster or
make
> command with "|& tee build.log" at the end, and config dialog is very
> hostile to this.  It is also helpful to be able to allow a long
portmaster or
> portupgrade, or package build, to run unattended.

make BATCH=yes

Chris