"&& make config" - stall

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jaymax

Frequently, in installing from a port, I would run into a situation where a dependency is required but it has a graphic designed sets of options for selection, then something like the following is sent to the stdout and the process apparently freezes.

Code: 
cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk85 && make config;

Usually, I'd kill the process return to the shell prompt, cd to the the port and do the make config, followed by a make install clean. Then return to the original port and continue, actually 'start over'.

Somehow, this approach does not seem elegant and I might be wallowing in some self created inefficiencies.

Would someone direct me to a more efficient way of doing this, if one does indeed exist

Thanks!
 
Slightly off-topic, but still slightly relevant:
A tip for making installation of ports with a lot of dependencies a little bit easier:
# make config-recursive
This will make it go through the list of ports it has to install, and run # make config on all of them that would have popped up during the # make install process, effectively moving all interactive choices to the beginning of the install. This way, you can configure everything while you're there, and then let it do its thing over the night. :)
 
config-recursive is very handy, but don't forget to run it twice. You may enable a dependency the first time through that has its own configuration options.
 
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