Finding options for ports

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:24:09 -0800, "Michael C. Shultz"
<ringworm at inbox.lv> wrote:

> On Monday 15 November 2004 12:18 pm, Kill the Penguin wrote:
> > I've ran into this sort of problem from time to time. How do you
> > find and specify options in those ports that don't present a banner.
> > For example, the php4 port has many options listed in the
> > Makefile.ext file, but it's not clear how to turn these on. I looked
> > through the ports docs again and I don't see anything like "make
> > showoptions". Can someone give me a clue?
> >
> > Chris
> 
> To find "WITH" type options I just do the following:
> 
> cat Makefile | grep WITH
> 
> Hope this helps some...
> 
> 
> -Mike

This is a useless use of "cat".  You could accomplish the same thing
with:

grep WITH Makefile

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Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"