From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jul 11 19:51:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3740537B400; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 19:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAEAC43E3B; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 19:51:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g6C2pYcA059730; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:51:34 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <3D27A296.D58FB4B4@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:51:33 -0400 To: Wes Peters , Dan Moschuk From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [as Garance continues to talk to himself...] At 10:41 PM -0400 7/11/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >To explain this a bit more, we sometimes get into a problem when >portAA needs portBB, and you: > > cd /usr/ports/*/portAA > make > -> make sees it needs to make portBB > -> it does a cd /usr/ports/*/portBB > -> and does a 'make' there, but it still has a whatever > make variables had been set for portAA, which you might > *not* want to have set when making portBB. > >I know I've hit this, but I can't remember the specifics, and I >know I have not hit it often. It might be that this was self-inflicted, in the sense that I may have added settings on the make command I typed in, eg: DOJIGGY=YES make or make BLAH=DISABLE because I did want those settings when making portAA, but I wasn't expecting portBB to be built with the same settings. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message