Finding options for ports

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 04:29:25PM -0500, Frank Laszlo wrote:

> 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.

If the port has been converted to use OPTIONS, then there's already a
list ('make showconfig').  If the port hasn't been converted to
OPTIONS, it would still need to be converted to your proposed 'make
showconfig', so you might as well just go all the way and make it use
OPTIONS.

Kris
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