Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:51:33 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <p05111701b953f38542f8@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <p05111700b953ed16c118@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20020706220511.GA88651@scoobysnax.jaded.net> <3D27A296.D58FB4B4@softweyr.com> <p05111745b94e9452f3b3@[128.113.24.47]> <p05111700b953ed16c118@[128.113.24.47]>
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[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
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