Re: Finding options for ports

2004-11-25 Thread David Landgren
[cc list trimmed] Lowell Gilbert wrote: Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: --On Monday, November 15, 2004 06:46:42 PM -0600 "Conrad J. Sabatier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a useless use of "cat". You could accomplish the same thing with: grep WITH Makefile When there are ten differe

Re: Finding options for ports

2004-11-17 Thread Chris Miller
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > If the port has been converted to use OPTIONS, then there's already a > list ('make showconfig'). If the port hasn't been converted to > OPTIONS, it would still need to be converted to your proposed 'make > showconfig', so you might as well just go all

Re: Finding options for ports

2004-11-16 Thread Jeff Hinrichs
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Monday, November 15, 2004 06:46:42 PM -0600 "Conrad J. Sabatier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a useless use of "cat". You could accomplish the same thing with: grep WITH Makefile When there are ten different ways to skin a cat, what makes one way inherently bette

Re: Finding options for ports

2004-11-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --On Monday, November 15, 2004 06:46:42 PM -0600 "Conrad J. Sabatier" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This is a useless use of "cat". You could accomplish the same thing > > with: > > > > grep WITH Makefile > > When there are ten different ways to

Re: Finding options for ports

2004-11-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, November 15, 2004 06:46:42 PM -0600 "Conrad J. Sabatier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a useless use of "cat". You could accomplish the same thing with: grep WITH Makefile When there are ten different ways to skin a cat, what makes one way inherently better than another? Paul

Re: Finding options for ports

2004-11-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 04:29:25PM -0500, Frank Laszlo wrote: > I believe I brought up the idea of "showoptions" in a previous post. > Maybe we should bring it back up :) > We should really have a standard file/section to denote these options in > an easily readable format. We cant assume > that

Re: Finding options for ports

2004-11-15 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:24:09 -0800, "Michael C. Shultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ex

Re: Finding options for ports

2004-11-15 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Monday 15 November 2004 01:29 pm, Frank Laszlo wrote: > Michael C. Shultz 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

Re: Finding options for ports

2004-11-15 Thread Frank Laszlo
Michael C. Shultz 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,

Re: Finding options for ports

2004-11-15 Thread Michael C. Shultz
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