From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 17:41:08 2004 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 13BA816A4CE; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:41:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from postman.arcor.de (postman2.arcor-online.net [151.189.0.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DB7F43D39; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:41:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com) Received: from fillmore.dyndns.org (port-212-202-51-21.reverse.qsc.de [212.202.51.21]) (authenticated bits=0)i0L1etgG010035 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 21 Jan 2004 02:40:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from [172.16.0.2] (helo=fillmore-labs.com) by fillmore.dyndns.org with esmtp (SSLv3:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1Aj7MV-000JIQ-HA; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 02:40:55 +0100 Message-ID: <400DD8A5.9050802@fillmore-labs.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 02:40:53 +0100 From: Oliver Eikemeier Organization: Fillmore Labs GmbH - http://www.fillmore-labs.com/ MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <1074590694.85583.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <400D2939.5090203@fillmore-labs.com> <1074617147.757.16.camel@gyros> <400D6379.5010602@ciam.ru> <20040121013426.GB22773@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040121013426.GB22773@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: Sergey Matveychuk cc: Eivind Eklund cc: Joe Marcus Clarke Subject: Re: HEADS UP: New bsd.*.mk changes 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: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 01:41:08 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:20:57PM +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > >>Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> >>>>>Type: FEATURE >>>>> >>>>>Title: Add per-port persistent build options with a menu-driven >>>>>front-end >> >>[snipped] >> >>>>>PR: >>>>> >>>>>Submitted by: eivind >> >>[snipped] >> >>>What's the general consensus on this (is there one)? What about ports >> >>Sadly, we've seen no PR before and couldn't discuss it. > > > It's been discussed off and on for several years. There were a couple > of prototypes developed, all of which had various problems, including > a prototype I wrote. Eivind did some more work on my code (and his > initial version also had problems, as I recall), but I assume they > were all cleaned up in the version that was committed. > > Kris It is great to *finally* see something that works. I t would be perfect with persistend non-yes-no-options ;-)