On 6/10/20, Matthew Seaman <matt...@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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. >
Makes sense! Obviously a lot of you guys are "STABLE-ising" 13 now! >>> 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. > Okay! > 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. > Oh, that is interesting too. Figures that FreeBSD Project would have THE most powerful c/c++ make infrastructure out there! i am impressed. This is so much better than Ubuntu, even with Synaptic for its ports. Although I am experimenting with a GUI on the mule, all interaction will eventually be ssh in the intended configuration. <gratitude> Thanks to you all! I think I consider this [SOLVED] for now. Will keep learning! :D -- Don Wilde **************************************************** * What is the Internet of Things but a system * * of systems including humans? * **************************************************** _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
