From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 13:49:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB8F16A4BF for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 13:49:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cultdeadsheep.org (charon.cultdeadsheep.org [80.65.226.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 568CE43FDD for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 13:49:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org) Received: (qmail 20225 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2003 20:49:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lucifer.cultdeadsheep.org) (192.168.0.2) by goofy.cultdeadsheep.org with SMTP; 2 Sep 2003 20:49:18 -0000 Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 22:49:16 +0200 From: Clement Laforet To: Kris Kennaway Message-Id: <20030902224916.352ba802.sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org> In-Reply-To: <20030902202300.GA46431@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030901003219.67e3f67c.sheepkiller@cultdeadsheep.org> <50785.192.168.4.2.1062372041.squirrel@mail.migus.org> <20030902202300.GA46431@rot13.obsecurity.org> Organization: tH3 cUlt 0f tH3 d3@d sH33p X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) X-Face: ._cVVRDn#-2((lnfi^P7CoD4htI$4+#G/G)!w|,}H5yK~%(3-C.JlEYbOjJGFwJkt*7N^%z jYeu[;}]}F"3}l5R'l"X0HbvT^D\Q&%deCo)MayY`);TO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devel/libtool13 <-> databases/mysql40-client dependency problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 20:49:21 -0000 On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 13:23:00 -0700 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 07:20:41PM -0400, Adam C. Migus wrote: > > > The thing with the USE_ variables is they seem to be a bit over used > > and symatically ambiguous. They're used for things in the make > > enviornment itself as well as packages themselves. > > If that's true, it's a bug. Can you please point to examples? > > All USE_* variables are supposed to be port-internal. The user > control knobs for specifying dependency preferences are > WITH_*/WITHOUT_*. Monthes (years ?) ago, some ports had USE_* knobs, but they seem to have been sanitized. Maybe should we proceed an ultimate sanity check ? Committers are aware of this, I think. In USE_MYSQL case, PR ports/56252 fix infinite loops when USE_MYSQL is user defined. regards, clem