ports/87417: mail/postfix refers to WITH_OPENLDAP_VER option, which doesn't have any effect

[Mark Linimon]

The following reply was made to PR ports/87417; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: linimon at lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
To: Alson van der Meulen <alson+bugs at waalsdorp.nl>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/87417: mail/postfix refers to WITH_OPENLDAP_VER option, which doesn't have any effect
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:33:55 -0500

 > It works fine with WANT_OPENLDAP_VER=23 in make.conf, but I'm not sure
 > if you're supposed to put this option in make.conf. Either change the
 > menu description or make WITH_OPENLDAP_VER work.
 
 From bsd.port.mk:
 
   # Note: the distinction between the USE_* and WANT_* variables, and the
   # WITH_* and WITHOUT_* variables, are that the former are restricted to
   # usage inside the ports framework, and the latter are reserved for user-
   # settable options.  (Setting USE_* in /etc/make.conf is always wrong).
 
 I will make a note to myself to add the text about WANT_* to the Porter's
 Handbook.  The other variables are discussed correctly in 
 
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-options.html
 
 and
 
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-depend.html
 
 (down towards the end.)
 
 mcl