OPTIONS handling doesn't seem to work fully in dependencies anymore

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 17 September 2008 03:44:14 am Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:52:31AM +0200, Alex Dupre wrote:
> > Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > >Nevertheless, going back to rev. 1.559 of b.p.m. restores correct
> > >behavior.
> > 
> > Are you sure? I didn't try, but that commit seems to add new reasons to 
> > show up the dialog box while not removing any of the old ones.
> > Running "make config-recursive" still works (and it calls recursively 
> > "make config-conditional" that works), so it seems john's analysis is 
> > correct, but I cannot figure how (and if) ever worked before.
> 
> Perhaps I was too fast in my response; I cannot reproduce it now.  While
> I'm trying to continuously approach revision that used to work, I'm
> starting to suspect that what if it never actually worked?
> 
> John, how old was your ports tree on 6.x?  Maybe this can shed some light
> on the subject..

I had updated it the day before my e-mail.  When I noticed that ports weren't 
popping up config screens, I actually stopped my build of ports/x11/kde4 at 
one point and did a 'make config-recursive' from that port and encountered 
several config screens (libxine, qt4-gui, etc.)

-- 
John Baldwin