optionsng ignores /var/db/ports/<portname>/options

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Sun Jun 3 19:10:41 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 07:18:26PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 03/06/2012 17:05, Roland Smith wrote:
> > I've used 'make config' to set the PYCAIO option to on;
> > 
> > slackbox# cat /var/db/ports/py27-py-stl/options
> > # This file is auto-generated by 'make config'.
> > # Options for py27-py-stl-3.1
> > _OPTIONS_READ=py27-py-stl-3.1
> > _FILE_COMPLETE_OPTIONS_LIST=PYCAIRO
> > OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=PYCAIRO
> > 
> > But the port seems to ignore it:
> > 
> > slackbox# make showconfig
> > ===> The following configuration options are available for py27-py-stl-3.1:
> >      PYCAIRO=off: Use (py)Cairo to enable stl2pdf
> > ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
> > 
> > Every time I do 'make config', the PYCAIRO option will be unset, even if it
> > shows as set in /var/db/ports/<portname>/options!
> 
> What does
> 
>  % make -V PORT_OPTIONS

slackbox# pwd
/usr/ports/graphics/py-stl
slackbox# make -V PORT_OPTIONS
DOCS EXAMPLES NLS
 
> show?  If PYCAIRO is set in PORT_OPTIONS, then the port is accepting
> your setting of the option, and you've found a bug with the showconfig
> target.  (If so, please open a PR.)
> 
> If not, then something odd is happening, as your port looks perfectly OK
> to me.   Are you using a ports tree updated within about the last 48
> hours or so?  I know there were some bug fixes went in to all FOO_DESC
> lines to contain (brackets) and other syntactically significant characters.

I updated my ports tree this afternoon. The really weird thing is that I
tested 'make config' in several other ports where it worked fine...

> PS. Asking this on freebsd-ports at ... might be a good idea.

I guess I will do that.

Roland
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