On Thursday 18 September 2008 03:18:17 pm Alex Dupre wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > Trust me, since I rebuild from scratch all the time, I quite remember when > > options were first added and I'd kick off a build of kde or some such > > overnight and check my screen session in the morning only find it hadn't > > build hardly anything b/c it had popped up the option screen for gettext. :) > > Me, too, really :-) But kde3 meta-port doesn't use the OPTIONS > framework, even if it displays the dialog box. And when the OPTIONS > framework was added, very few ports actually used it, so it was very > very rare to incur in *direct* dependencies between two OPTIONS-enabled > ports. The kde4 meta-port now uses it, so it became obvious that > something wasn't working as expected when you tried to build it.
Ahh, I think I see now. It requires one OPTIONS using port to mask the dependencies. > > I wonder why it has to be this hackish btw. Could config-conditional simply > > be in the list of targets before 'fetch' or some such? > > I thought the same thing, probably yes, but I dunno why it was added in > such way from the beginning, so I tried to create the simplest and > surely working patch maintaining the current workflow. Ok. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"