Help with building ports

[balanga]

Whenever I try building ports I often find there are lots of dialog boxes to go through... Sometimes you leave a build running for ages only to find that it is stuck at some dialog box. Is there a way to avoid all these dialogs if you want to accept all the default options?

 

[VladiBG]

use make config-recursive

 

[SirDice]

It's make config-recursive.

     config-recursive     Configure OPTIONS for this port and all its
                          dependencies using dialog4ports(1).

See ports(7)

Is there a way to avoid all these dialogs if you want to accept all the default options?

     BATCH             If defined, only operate on a port if it can be
                       installed 100% automatically.

Also from ports(7).