From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 21:26:21 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE1D1065686; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 21:26:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F32808FC24; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 21:26:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slackbox.erewhon.net (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q54LPiZg066298; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 23:25:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.erewhon.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E047D1235B; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 23:25:43 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 23:25:43 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Greg Larkin Message-ID: <20120604212543.GA19182@slackbox.erewhon.net> References: <20120603160518.GA6631@slackbox.erewhon.net> <4FCBAA72.7020103@FreeBSD.org> <20120603191003.GA8028@slackbox.erewhon.net> <20120604183234.GC14162@slackbox.erewhon.net> <4FCD1417.4060000@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zhXaljGHf11kAtnf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FCD1417.4060000@FreeBSD.org> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: optionsng ignores /var/db/ports//options X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:26:21 -0000 --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 04:01:27PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: > > Well, it was a bug, but not particularly in showconfig alone, see > > below. > >=20 > >>> If not, then something odd is happening, as your port looks > >>> perfectly OK to me. Are you using a ports tree updated within > >>> about the last 48 hours or so? I know there were some bug > >>> fixes went in to all FOO_DESC lines to contain (brackets) and > >>> other syntactically significant characters. > >>=20 > >> I updated my ports tree this afternoon. The really weird thing is > >> that I tested 'make config' in several other ports where it > >> worked fine... > >>=20 > >>> PS. Asking this on freebsd-ports@... might be a good idea. > >=20 > > The bad news is that it was a bug in the ports system. It turned > > out that because of the way the unique name of the port was set > > (which happens twice), the options file is not read from the same > > directory that it is written to! Thanks to Baptiste Daroussin for > > clueing me in in this. I've gained a new respect for the people > > maintaining the ports infrastructure. :-) It's kind of amazing it > > works as well as it does. > >=20 > > The good news is that there are several workarounds. For future > > reference, the workaround that I ended up using was to set the > > following variable in the port makefile: > >=20 > > OPTIONSFILE=3D ${PORT_DBDIR}/py27-${PORTNAME}/options > >=20 > >=20 > > Roland >=20 > Hi Roland, >=20 > I don't think you want to hardcode the "py27-" in the variable > assignment, since it ties the filename to a specific version of > Python. Check PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX, and it should adjust itself as > the Python version changes. Actually, if I understood correctly, the fact that PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX _changes_ from py- to py27- in different parts of the included .mk files is what causes the problem in the first place. So I did this on purpose. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk/NJ9cACgkQEnfvsMMhpyUUGwCgroUMig7A1BSDplILsgwwb9HM f0UAniDua8dw40qLZvQ3cf92ySuKgxZk =ldPe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zhXaljGHf11kAtnf--