From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 11 20:54:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A7D16A4CE for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:54:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay00.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C70A643D2D for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:54:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alejandro@varnet.biz) Received: (qmail 48846 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2005 20:54:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ale.varnet.bsd) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 11 Apr 2005 20:54:30 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 200.115.214.28 Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:55:26 -0300 From: Alejandro Pulver To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050411175526.54ffd260@ale.varnet.bsd> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12b (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Creating port with options X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:54:32 -0000 Hello, I am creating a port of the Core War system pMARS (the existent port is version 0.8, lastest is 0.9.2), and I will allow the user to choose the GUI and features. I have some questions: How can I "document" the options for the user? So that typing "make" will not do anything unless it has the required options (or it will use the defaults but first shows the available options). Will be possible for the user to store the configuration somwehere? Wich is the best way to show the user the options (before the building process)? P.S.: how do ports show the sysinstall-like dialog to choose options? Thanks and Best Regards, Ale