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

[Ilya A. Arkhipov]

07.07.2013, 17:17, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de>:
> 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  - Maybe you're running an outdated version of dialog4ports.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

Hi Oliver,

Seems it was related with update libdialog in current after that was broken ABI... rebuild d4p will fix this problem.

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With Best Regards,
Ilya A. Arkhipov