port name conflicts

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 17 09:54:56 PST 2005


On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:38:40AM -0500, Paul Chvostek wrote:
> 
> The ports www/clearsilver and www/clearsilver-python both exist.  The
> latter calls the former with WITH_PYTHON enabled.  So www/clearsilver
> detects WITH_PYTHON, and changes its options accordingly ... but also
> changes its package name with:
> 
>   .if defined(WITH_PYTHON)
>   ...
>   PKGNAMESUFFIX=  -python
>   ...
> 
> The result is that if WITH_PYTHON=yes is in /etc/make.conf, then these
> ports have identical names, causing a conflict when `make index` runs.
> 
> What's the solution here?  Don't put WITH_PYTHON in /etc/make.conf?

You can just ignore the warning, it shouldn't cause any problems.

Kris


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