make config: doesn't work - reports ===> Options unchanged : no options menu popping up

[O. Hartmann]

On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 14:36:37 +0200
Marco Steinbach <coco at executive-computing.de> wrote:

> O. Hartmann wrote on 07.07.2013 12:25:
> > 
> > On boxes running recent /usr/ports and recent soutces( FreeBSD
> > 10.0-CURRENT #0 r252885: Sat Jul  6 16:09:09 CEST 2013) I'm unable
> > to configure some ports, for instance www/firefox:
> > 
> > /usr/ports/www/firefox # make config
> > ===> Options unchanged
> > 
> > Even performing "make rmconfig" and repeating above procedure
> > doesn't change anything. I can not change options anymore!
> > 
> > Please CC me, I'm not subsrcribing the list.
> 
> [...]
> 
> I've seen this kind of behaviour with dialog4ports in various 
> situations, but since dialog4ports-0.1.1 or so, I've never
> encountered this again.
> 
> Here's a few shots in the dark:
> 
> - Maybe you're running an outdated version of dialog4ports.  Remove 
> dialog4ports, then make config in www/firefox again.  This will
> trigger installation of whatever the most recent version of
> dialog4ports is in your ports tree.
> - Check your environment.  Unset DIALOG4PORTS or DIALOG, if they're
> set, then try make config again.
> 
> MfG CoCo

Thanks for the hint. 

rebuilding dialog4ports made the problem go away.

It is strange. I usually have up to date ports, even dialog4ports. But
since this happens on CURRENT (I didn't see this on 9.1-STBALE yet) I
guess it is due to CURRENT is a moving target ...

Regards,
Oliver

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