pkgtools.conf make arguments ignored (?!?)

[martinko]

RW wrote:
> On Sunday 11 December 2005 15:27, martinko wrote:
> 
>>hello,
>>
>>i'm having troubles with specifying make arguments to portupgrade via
>>/usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.
>>this is a part of my config file:
>>
>>   MAKE_ARGS = {
>>     'x11/yelp' => 'WITH_MAN=1 WITH_INFO=1 WITH_GECKO=mozilla',
>>   }
>>
>>it works only if i run `portupgrade -N yelp`
>>but it does not work when i run eg `portupgrade -N gnome2-lite`
>>
>>interesting thing is that according to pkgtools.conf itself the
>>following should work too but it does not :
>>
>>   MAKE_ARGS = {
>>     'x11/yelp-*' => 'WITH_MAN=1 WITH_INFO=1 WITH_GECKO=mozilla',
>>   }
>>
>>is this a known issue (and why?) or am i doing something wrong ??
>>
> 
> The reason is that portupgrade -N gnome2-lite only builds  gnome2-lite, and 
> yelp gets built by the ports system as a side effect.  Once the ports are in 
> the the package database, portupgrade will handle the MAKE_ARGS correctly.
> 
> I do this kind of thing with entries in make.conf like this:
> 
> .if ${.CURDIR:M*/www/linuxpluginwrapper}
> WITH_PLUGINS=yes
> .endif
> _______________________________________________

well, i thought portupgrade was the right tool for this. but from your 
explanation it looks like one would need to compile ports twice to 
achive one's goal. :-(

thanks for your trick with make.conf, it seems to do a job. i'll have a 
look at it later..