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Johnny2Bad said:I'm sorry but the above did not install the required man page(s).
That makes it more difficult. In the meantime, all the man pages are online.
What I really need to do according to portmanager is recompile math/alpha with "WITH_STATIC_LIB" selected. How can I uninstall alpha and re-install it so that it gives me the options screen when installing? Or failing that how can I set "WITH_STATIC_LIB" when building alpha?
A lot of things going on here.
There isn't a math/alpha port in the current ports tree.
See ports(7). To change the options on a port, use the config target and then rebuild the port:
# cd /usr/ports/math/alpha
# make config
# make deinstall clean install
Some options aren't in a menu and must be set on the command line:
# cd /usr/ports/math/alpha
# make WITH_STATIC_LIB=yes deinstall clean install
Finally, a lot of people seem to be using portmanager lately; not sure why. It's less used than either ports-mgmt/portmaster or ports-mgmt/portupgrade. Although it may work as well, the options are different and not as well-known.