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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:04:54 +1100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@piwebs.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: default OPTIONS aren't the default when BATCH is set
Message-ID:  <20040312010454.GH99582@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <200403120157.01609.avleeuwen@piwebs.com>
References:  <200403120157.01609.avleeuwen@piwebs.com>

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On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:56:57AM +0100, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote:
> If I define the BATCH environment variable, I'd expect ports to choose their 
> default values for the OPTIONS they might have. 
> 
> However, it seems like all options are simply set to 'off', thereby making 
> many of the ports that I upgraded lately unusable.
> 
> For example, my own graphics/digikamplugins port builds nothing if all its 
> options are off.
> 
> The multimedia/kdemultimedia3 package builds without the default mpeglib 
> package, which can give unexpected results when trying to run other KDE 
> programs that depend on this functionality.
> 
> Apart from being a nuisance for me when updating, does this also mean that 
> packages built on by the FreeBSD package cluster are also built without there 
> default options? This will give very strange results when installing from 
> packages.

Already noticed in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/63682:

    [patch] bsd.port.mk - PACKAGE_BUILDING doesn't honour OPTIONS

Edwin

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