Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:58:38 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OPTIONS handling doesn't seem to work fully in dependencies anymore Message-ID: <48CEBE6E.1030508@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200809151036.19674.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200809151036.19674.jhb@freebsd.org>
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John Baldwin wrote:
> So I upgraded my desktop machine at home from 6.x -> 7.x this weekend. As
> part of that I do my usual (albeit archaic) practice of just deleting all
> packages and rebuilding everything from ports. I also decided to try out
> kde4 instead of kde3. I "discovered" during this process that ports that
> were built as dependencies no longer pop up the dialog box to set OPTIONS,
> etc. during a build. Only the "top-level" port does so. I'm curious if this
> is a bug or a feature?
Bug, and at first glance I think your analysis is correct about the
cause.
You can work around this problem by using portmaster since it will go
through all the config screens for all the ports in its first pass
before it starts building things (and download distfiles in the bg
while it does so). This also takes dependencies into account since it
does a depth-first traversal of the tree.
If you're doing an install from scratch you might also want to blow
away the contents of /var/db/ports/*, or if you're using portmaster
you could use the --force-config option to re-run config even if there
is a stored options file for that port.
hth,
Doug
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