Portupgrade (vs. Portmanager) question

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Sunday 27 March 2005 09:41 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote:
> stheg olloydson wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > They are recursive dependencies. Check each ports requirements.
> > cvsup-without-gui depends on ezm3. ezm3 depends on gmake,
> > gettext and libiconv. libiconv depends on libtool...and the foot
> > bone's connected to the toe bone :).
> >
> > hth,
> >
> > stheg
>
> stheg,
>
> Thank you. Great learning experience. Especially 'make search'. That
> is very useful. But how does it work (/usr/ports/Makefile doesn't
> have a SEARCH statement) and is it documented somewhere, like in a
> MAN page?
>
> The handbook, ¶4.3, mentions 'make search' but doesn't explain how it
> works.
>
> Jay

It would be nice if the ports make options were better documented, but 
you can read through /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk and find information
on the various options. 

here is an example:

# all-depends-list
#                         - Show all directories which are dependencies
#                                 for this port.

then

cd /usr/ports/lang/ezm3/
make all-depends-list

result:

/usr/ports/converters/libiconv
/usr/ports/devel/gettext
/usr/ports/devel/gmake
/usr/ports/devel/libtool15

-Mike