Need help with OPTIONS

[Matthew Seaman]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 05:18:16PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Here's the deal, the bsd.port.mk docs say that one should include
> bsd.port.pre.mk before you start testing the WITH_xyz variables.
> 
> *But*, I have a problem with that, some options modify the PREFIX in my
> port, e.g. if you enable GTK then USE_X_PREFIX is defined. Apparently
> one cannot do that, as it results in errors and portlint complains:
> 
> FATAL: Makefile [35]: USE_X_PREFIX is set after including
> bsd.port.pre.mk.
> FATAL: Makefile [41]: USE_QT_VER is set after including bsd.port.pre.mk.
> 
> Also trying to build the port with the WITH_GTK option enabled results
> in errors which don't show up if WITH_CONSOLE or WITH_QT are set.
> 
> scienide# make
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Malformed conditional (${_USE_GNOME_ALL:Mgtk20}=="")
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.gnome.mk", line 8: Need an operator
> 
> Any ideas?

You might be interested in how lang/php4-extensions handles OPTIONS --
*all* that port does is set up the USE_PHP variable.  It carefully
avoids bsd.port.pre.mk, but it has to fiddle around with some
variables like PORT_DBDIR or OPTIONSFILE to do so, which ideally it
probably shouldn't do.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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