From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 24 18:17:13 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A54C03DF for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:17:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz.freebsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vc0-f169.google.com (mail-vc0-f169.google.com [209.85.220.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CCEA14C1 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:17:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f169.google.com with SMTP id gd11so2068361vcb.14 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:17:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=k5Z1PrehnCWFMjaGnFPxXP7rLWYXL72huFudHHzjl+g=; b=nn+wa4610MWBw/ekJjYfuOpMrQzTmhVh1ZGde10X5/afF+9eBTscUnV8k5KMFkeL3/ +l3fBKAo0vyTFXrbLsW9CGlduBSu2Fe3uxTMvvrekBZdSdncRLyXxb9K23J3SMgYD1z5 bWvZ8vinxXbH+DCUxKv7nxQ7wkaLMNdj9xczFs3WEntjr3zqBV1/xyLRsxr9VgWUK8jJ 3iw6wwNDaELe7kKk6JWen146Bm8DT26iBc631WTACo1lBijtTt6LgSHn9PfstXyFvQBW kcfa0r67NBqzgFCisc3Xxg4apG899814KFNJUlu85tCPkv6hY7M8YV1mWluQUFP23q9v hlSg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.221.0.199 with SMTP id nn7mr25889846vcb.14.1366827427646; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:17:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.74.197 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:16:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:16:37 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: optionsng not saving options on some ports From: Jeremy Messenger To: Kevin Oberman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "ports@FreeBSD.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:17:13 -0000 On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Once again I hit a case where a port being upgraded by portmaster asked for > options configuration (dialog4ports) nd fails to either save it correctly > or to find the saved options. > > I ran portmaster to upgrade ruby18-bdb43. I was asked to select options > three times, once for 'make fetch', one for 'make', and once for 'make > install'. Unfortunately, it seems that the options I selected were simply > ignored as I de-selected both DOC and EXAMPLE, but both were built and > installed. > > The same thing happened while ago with another port (libxml2?). I assume > it is something about the way the Makefile is written that is wrong, but it > certainly is annoying and, if it was a port where I REALLY need a certain > option, I'd have a more serious problem. It's known issue. See here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/148637 The PR doesn't display my message very well in HTML, so you will have to click on the 'Raw PR' link in the bottom to read my message better. > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com -- mezz.freebsd@gmail.com - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org