FreeBSD provides two complementary technologies for installing third-party software: the FreeBSD Ports Collection, for installing from source, and packages, for installing from pre-built binaries
Well, that's kind of Unix 101; you could redirect the output. Look into the manual page of whatever shell you're using, generally you'd use > and the likes. For example: echo stuff > /dev/null. Of course I'd suggest using something like tee to dump the output in a file anyway in case something goes wrong.
Another option could be ports-mgmt/portmaster; it has an option in its config file which tells it to hide th building output.
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