Weird problem with shells/scponly

[Yuri Pankov]

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 at 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=yes.
In your case it was treated as make target, hence error message.


HTH,
Yuri