question on porting

[Matthew Seaman]

On 10/06/2020 15:51, Donald Wilde wrote:
> Okay, it didn't work, but discovered INDEX-12 in /usr/ports, so
> ' grep gcc INDEX-12 | wc -l ' worked.
> 
> Such an interesting file, INDEX-12. More research needed. Is it not
> INDEX-13 because I did ' make index' instead of ' make fetchindex ' ?

You should always get an index matching the major version of the OS 
you're using, whether you fetch something pre-built or make you own.

>> Memo to self: figure out what basic options are supported in
>> Makefiles, especially in/usr/ports/, and make clear documentation
>> patches (if needed). :D
>>
> /self thinks this is all probably in the Porter's Handbook, but the
> regular Handbook should have some of it.

The ports(7) man page probably has a lot of what you're looking for.

There's a 'make search' command which is a wrapper around grepping in 
the INDEX file that you might find interesting.

For your use case, try:

    cd /usr/ports
    make search bdeps=gcc display=name

which returns 3241 results when I tried it just now.

	Cheers,

	Matthew