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Date:      Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:03:05 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Alex Dupre <ale@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: OPTIONS handling doesn't seem to work fully in dependencies	anymore
Message-ID:  <200809171303.05759.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <48D0A683.9020802@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200809151036.19674.jhb@freebsd.org> <48D03248.1040109@FreeBSD.org> <48D0A683.9020802@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wednesday 17 September 2008 02:41:07 am Alex Dupre wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
> > John was referring to the problem of 'make config' not being called for
> > ports being installed as dependencies of a port that has OPTIONS.
> 
> John said (correct me if I'm wrong) that with an up-to-date system 
> OPTIONS doesn't correctly shows up (when the top port has OPTIONS), but 
> with an "old" system this worked. Reading the bsd.port.mk, the 
> "incriminated" CONFIG_DONE rows never changed since the introduction of 
> the OPTIONS support, so I think this *never* worked as expected.

It used to work.  I was just guessing about how it might not be working now 
based on reading the existing logic.  I have not delved into the history to 
see what has changed.

-- 
John Baldwin



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