On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Chad J. Milios <mil...@ccsys.com> wrote:
> On 3/4/2014 9:40 AM, Thierry Thomas wrote: > >> Le mar 4 mar 14 à 15:05:51 +0100, Jakub Lach <jakub_l...@mailplus.pl> >> écrivait : >> >>> Thanks for reply! >>> >>> IMHO, port knobs really should be centrally tracked/standardized. >>> When one would like to set some options globally, it gets really >>> ugly really fast e.g. >>> >> It used to be in /usr/ports/KNOBS but it was removed some days ago. >> Anyway, it's still available in svn, and most of the knobs are described >> in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.desc.mk . >> > from within a port's directory, > > make showconfig > > will show you the current options set and > > make __MAKE_CONF=/dev/null PORT_DBDIR=/var/empty showconfig > > will show you the defaults. > > Hope this is helpful to you > If those two commands aren't in the Handbook (I'm pretty sure the first one is), then they should be considered for inclusion. Or, maybe in the Porter's Handbook? Or maybe ports(7)? I can see the second command being very useful, especially during this transitional stage where people will be migrating/recreating their make.conf files. Something I could have used awhile back, before I just moved to using the binary package repos from PC-BSD. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
