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Re:Debian developer prompted to revisit FreeBSD after 20 years by rvanlaar on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @06:25AM (#9067940)
You could run:

make config-recursive

a couple of times to do the configuration up front.

See also: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html

Re:Debian developer prompted to revisit FreeBSD after 20 years by weland on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @12:50PM (#9069845)
It's what I usually do, but it's still annoying as hell when more than a dozen packages are involved in the build chain :(.