NO_OPTIONS_SORT makes options disappear

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 03:28:24PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
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> On 06/04/2012 15:22, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 01:47:03PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> >> The new options framework sorts all of the options by default
> >> before presenting them to the user. I have mixed feelings about
> >> this, however there is supposed to be a workaround for those of
> >> us who have grouped the options for our ports into logical
> >> chunks, NO_OPTIONS_SORT.
> >> 
> >> Today I tried defining that in my BIND ports so that users would
> >> not be confused during the upgrade process, and got this:
> >> 
> >> make config ===> No options to configure
> >> 
> >> I tried defining NO_OPTIONS_SORT both before and after including 
> >> bsd.port.pre.mk, got the same result for both.
> 
> > Have you tried keeping you port as-is
> 
> I left it as-is since I don't have time to do anything else. This
> results in a bad user experience since the options are now all sorted
> into alphabetical order instead of the meaningful groupings that I had
> them in.
> 
> > or converting it ?
> 
> I don't have time to do that right now, and this should not be
> necessary in order to maintain backwards compatibility with what I
> already had. I can accept adding the NO_OPTIONS_SORT knob, but the
> fact that adding it causes things to be dramatically more broken than
> they already are is a bug.
> 
> > Can you send me a diff so that I can have a deeper look tomorrow
> > morning GMT+1?
> 
> I described what I did in detail in my OP. Adding NO_OPTIONS_SORT was
> the only change I made.
> 
> Doug
> 
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Can you try with this patch ?
http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/bsd.options.mk.diff

Still adding NO_OPTIONS_SORT=yes

regards,
Bapt
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