Portmaster runs make config three times for some ports

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 9 February 2013 05:45, Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2 at milibyte.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I started off portmaster on a massive update on Thursday evening. Everything
> started off OK and I kept responding to all the make config screens until they
> were all finished and the compilation was well underway then went to bed and
> left it to get on with it.
>
> The next morning I discovered that things had progressed as far as starting to
> build en-apache-openoffice but it was sitting there with the config screen
> again despite having already gone through make config earlier. I clicked on OK
> and left it to get on with the compilation while I went away to get on with
> other things with just occasional checks to make sure it was still running.
> About 6 hours later when I checked it had completed the compilation and had
> started to install en-apache-openoffice but was waiting yet again with the
> config screen.
>
> Once again I clicked on OK and left things to continue. The job was still
> running last night and I expected to find it completed by this morning but on
> checking at 9:30 this morning I discovered that it had done the same thing
> with py27-gobject and had been sitting there with the config screen since
> shortly after midnight.
>
> Both openoffice and py27-gobject had gone through make config in the initial
> stage (I've checked the log file) but for some reason make config was repeated
> immediately before the compile and install stages.
>
> I invoked portmaster with:
>
>      portmaster -r libffi -r boost-libs -r gnutls -r libtasn1
>
> and these are the only options set in /usr/local/etc/portmaster.rc
>
> # Never search for stale distfiles to delete (-D)
> DONT_SCRUB_DISTFILES=Dopt
> #
> # Do not prompt the user for failed backup package creation
> PM_IGNORE_FAILED_BACKUP_PACKAGE=pm_ignore_failed_backup_package
>
> Any ideas how I can avoid this happening.
>

It's slow & painful, but run through once with -n, to set all
of your config options, & then run it again with BATCH=YES
set (though I don't know if it would be best to edit /etc/make.conf,
set it in the environment, or pass it with -m) to avoid it asking
again.

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