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Date:      Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:33:56 -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:  <200809181033.56619.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <48D2167F.3040203@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200809151036.19674.jhb@freebsd.org> <200809171303.05759.jhb@freebsd.org> <48D2167F.3040203@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thursday 18 September 2008 04:51:11 am Alex Dupre wrote:
> John Baldwin ha scritto:
> > It used to work.
> 
> I was thinking the same thing, but actually it never worked in that way.

Trust me, since I rebuild from scratch all the time, I quite remember when 
options were first added and I'd kick off a build of kde or some such 
overnight and check my screen session in the morning only find it hadn't 
build hardly anything b/c it had popped up the option screen for gettext. :)

> > 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.
> 
> The attached patch should solve this erratic behavior.

I wonder why it has to be this hackish btw.  Could config-conditional simply 
be in the list of targets before 'fetch' or some such?

-- 
John Baldwin



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