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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:59:10 -0500
From:      Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
To:        FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Weird problem with shells/scponly
Message-ID:  <092EAD30872B43867019863F@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20070824172437.GA6987@darklight.org.ru>
References:  <A8CDBFF6037F0B9879274DB0@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20070824172437.GA6987@darklight.org.ru>

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--On Friday, August 24, 2007 21:24:37 +0400 Yuri Pankov=20
<yuri@darklight.org.ru> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:13:16PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> I just encountered a very strange problem with shells/scponly.  When I
>> tried to portupgrade it, I consistently got an error:
>>
>> /usr/ports/shells/scponly]# portupgrade scponly*
>> --->  Upgrading 'scponly-4.6_1' to 'scponly-4.6_2' (shells/scponly)
>> --->  Building '/usr/ports/shells/scponly' with make flags:
>> WITH_SCPONLY_WINSCP
>> make: don't know how to make WITH_SCPONLY_WINSCP. Stop
>> ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed)
>>        ! shells/scponly (scponly-4.6_1)        (clean error)
>> --->  Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed
>>
>> That option wasn't selected and isn't selected by default.  I tried make
>> rmconfig/make config, and all the other tricks I know, including make
>> distclean/portupgrade scponly*.
>>
>> Finally I deinstalled the port and reinstalled it.  It installs fine
>> both  with and without that knob.
>>
>> Is portupgrade saving some setting somewhere that is different from
>> config?
>>
>> (I've cc'd the port maintainer although it doesn't look like there's a
>> problem with the port itself.)
>>
>> --
>> Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
>> Senior Information Security Analyst
>> The University of Texas at Dallas
>> http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
>
> It's only a make flag and is passed to make as it is. You need to define
> it using -DWITH_SCPONLY_WINSCP or by assigning some value to it:
> WITH_SCPONLY_WINSCP=3Dyes. In your case it was treated as make target,
> hence error message.
>
Yes, but the point is, I *wasn't* trying to build with that flag *and* it=20
wasn't *supposed* to build with that flag.  Yet it was trying to (and=20
failing) anyway.  The default value of the OPTION is "off", and I didn't=20
turn it on.

Very odd.

--=20
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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