overwriting NOT_FOR_ARCHS via /etc/make.conf has no effect

2009-01-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht 
I'm trying to overwrite a Makefile variable via /etc/make.conf
It doesn't seem to work:

# cd /usr/ports/lang/gcc43
# grep NOT Makefile
NOT_FOR_ARCHS=  alpha ia64
# grep -C1 NOT /etc/make.conf
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/lang/gcc4*}
NOT_FOR_ARCHS= ia64
.endif
# make
===  gcc-4.3.3_20090122 does not run on alpha ia64, while you are running 
alpha.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/lang/gcc43.
# 

What am I doing wrong?

many thanks
anton

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Re: overwriting NOT_FOR_ARCHS via /etc/make.conf has no effect

2009-01-26 Thread Polytropon 
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:55:29 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk 
wrote:
 I'm trying to overwrite a Makefile variable via /etc/make.conf
 It doesn't seem to work:

This behaviour is correct. The local makefiles have precedence
before the /etc/make.conf settings.



 What am I doing wrong?

You could modify the port's Makefile itself, or create Makefile.local
in the port's dicrectory with your specific settings, but I don't
now if this mechanism is still supported.



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Re: overwriting NOT_FOR_ARCHS via /etc/make.conf has no effect

2009-01-26 Thread Mel 
On Monday 26 January 2009 05:06:48 Polytropon wrote:
 On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:55:29 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk 
wrote:
  I'm trying to overwrite a Makefile variable via /etc/make.conf
  It doesn't seem to work:

 This behaviour is correct. The local makefiles have precedence
 before the /etc/make.conf settings.

They don't, even though it seems so. The Makefile is *read* 
after /etc/make.conf. The Makefile sets this variable unconditionally, 
therefore cannot be overridden by anything that is read before the Makefile.
If the Makefile defined it like so:
NOT_FOR_ARCHS?=alpha ia64

then /etc/make.conf would work, since the variable is defined at the time the 
Makefile is read.


  What am I doing wrong?

 You could modify the port's Makefile itself, or create Makefile.local
 in the port's dicrectory with your specific settings, but I don't
 now if this mechanism is still supported.

It is and since Makefile.local is read *after* the Makefile, you can override 
the variable there.

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Mel

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and never get to the software part.
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