From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Aug 29 23:35:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from net2.dinoex.sub.org (net2.dinoex.de [212.184.201.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F0037B408 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:35:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org) Received: from gate.dinoex.sub.org (dinoex@localhost) by net2.dinoex.sub.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with BSMTP id f7U6Z4016400 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:35:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org) X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: From: dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer) Organization: privat Subject: Re: ports.conf (broken?) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:29:47 +0200 X-Mailer: Dinoex 1.77 References: <3B8CFDF0.E716421F@FreeBSD.org> X-Gateway: ZCONNECT gate.dinoex.sub.org [UNIX/Connect 0.93] X-Accept-Language: de,en X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 16 EC 0A D3 3A 4F 28 8A 8A 47 93 F1 CF 2F 12 X-Noad: Please don't send me ad's by mail. I'm bored by this type of mail. X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 1999 by Dirk Meyer -- All rights reserved. X-Note: sending SPAM is a violation of both german and US law and will at least trigger a complaint at your provider's postmaster. X-PGP-Key-Avail: mailto:pgp-public-keys@keys.de.pgp.net Subject:GET 0x331CDA5D X-No-Archive: yes X-ZC-VIA: 20010830000000S+2@dinoex.sub.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Because make.conf affects _EVERY_ instance of make that is run. > This is a bug Ni a feature ... > /etc/make.conf should only be used for stuff that people want to affect every > make command. (I.e., overriding things in sys.mk.) Other modules should use > their own configuration file (ports.conf, world.conf, etc.) This concept has > been discusssed for years on the mailing lists. if /etc/ports.conf is read in by "bsd.ports.mk" it is already to late. Most port makefile I have seen, read the knobs and vars before they include "bsd.ports.mk", so they won't detect any setting that is made in there. eg: USA_RESIDENT=NO - Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message