misc/68346: portupgrade requires user intervention

[Andrew Grillet]

>Number:         68346
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       portupgrade requires user intervention
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jun 25 23:10:15 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Andrew Grillet
>Release:        4.9
>Organization:
Quickstart Technology Ltd
>Environment:
not relevant
>Description:
When you 'make' programs with complex dependencies, its often the case that a deeply nested dependency requires manual selection of options.

A make target eg "make selection" is required that will force all
targets to request user selection of options before subsequent "make build"

Ie "make selection" recursively visits all dependencies and requests any potiential user intervention, but does nothing else. The top level build then re-visits all dependencies to perform the actual "make build".
>How-To-Repeat:
"make kdelibs" on a seriously out of date machine.
>Fix:
see description, but alternative solutions might be possible.      
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