[nycbug-talk] confusion with NetBSD's PKG_OPTIONS

[Scott Robbins]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:36:50PM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>  
> > As it was beginning the install I got a message to the effect that
> > currently selected options were anthy, gtk and canna.  There is a note
> > that one can override this by setting PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS or the
> > variable PKG_OPTIONS.uim.  It then gave a message that the current value
> > of PKG_OPTIONS.uim was anthy and gtk, which seemed to be what I wanted.  
> 
> On my pkgsrc (which isn't entirely up to date) it also says:
> 
> Deprecated variable USE_CANNA set to YES, use PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS+=canna
> instead.
> 
> So this is where it pulls the canna in from for me.  If I run
> 
> $ make USE_CANNA=no
> 
> It tells me:
> 
> Deprecated variable USE_CANNA set to NO, use PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS+=-canna
> instead.
> 
> But it does not pull in canna.  So running:
> 
> $  make PKG_OPTIONS.uim="anthy gtk -canna"
> 
> Seems to be what you want, I think.
> 
> I admit this is not really the least confusing method. :-)


Yup, but it worked perfectly.  Thanks.  One little example in TFM page
would have saved me a great deal of time.  

Thanks again.  




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