From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 17 11:21:41 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3633516A46E for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:21:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lawrance@FreeBSD.org) Received: from pecan.exetel.com.au (pecan.exetel.com.au [220.233.0.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3F3D13C4AE for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:21:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lawrance@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 28.201.233.220.exetel.com.au ([220.233.201.28] helo=[192.168.100.148]) by pecan.exetel.com.au with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hzrsr-0001Lt-5S; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:21:25 +1000 In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <37D43FA1-0297-4497-A335-EF1D72C8A0D2@FreeBSD.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Sam Lawrance Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:21:09 +1000 To: TooMany Secrets X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make a make install without questions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:21:41 -0000 On 17/06/2007, at 8:10 PM, TooMany Secrets wrote: > Hi! > > Excuse me if this is a estupid question, but in six years with > FreeBSD, today I haven't still an answer to this: > - If I make a "make install clean", in a port like "x11/kde3", are > there any way to make the lack of questions? Or maybe better, are > there any way to make anything like "make -y (or -Y for YES options) > install clean"? > > The trouble is ports like KDE, with platform independency (more or > less cpu power), take more time because you need to stay (more or > less) in front of computer to choose and accept the port options. > I understand that you don't need this with other ports (like apache, > php, etc), for obvious reasons. But I think that with ports like > gnome2 or kde3, maybe I believe that it would be a great saving of > time. > > Sorry if the question is understandable for my bad english. make -DBATCH ... See the "ports" man page ;-)