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Date:      Sun, 16 Dec 2001 21:30:36 -0500
From:      Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>
To:        Steve Price <steve@havk.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports/32917: bsd.ports.mk fails for innocent $GREP_OPTIONS
Message-ID:  <20011216213036.A70404@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
In-Reply-To: <200112170230.fBH2U1g08373@freefall.freebsd.org>; from steve@havk.org on Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 06:30:01PM -0800
References:  <200112170230.fBH2U1g08373@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 06:30:01PM -0800, Steve Price wrote:
>The following reply was made to PR ports/32917; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 01:31:10AM +0100, clemensF wrote:
> > 
> > it took literally hours to find out that those GREP_OPTIONS were the cause,
> > and i'd like the ports-maintainer to unset this option in the make file (perhaps
> > putting ``GREP_OPTIONS=""'' somewhere near the top?).
> 
> Does adding GREP_OPTIONS='' to /etc/make.conf help?  If not, then
> it won't help by adding it to the port's Makefile either.  If it
> does, then I thinks that's the best solution.  Someone might have
> a very good reason for setting GREP_OPTIONS and for bsd.port.mk
> to blithely undo that setting isn't the right solution IMHO.

Steve, I thought he was asking that it be added to the Makefile of the
port(s) that exhibited the problem, not to bsd.port.mk. He was just noting
that the breakage occurred in bsd.ports.mk.

-- 
Alan Eldridge
Just another $THING hacker.

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