Attachment 65834 Details for Bug 97477 – book.sgml.diff

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>Index: book.sgml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml,v
>retrieving revision 1.709
>diff -u -r1.709 book.sgml
>--- book.sgml	18 May 2006 05:05:30 -0000	1.709
>+++ book.sgml	19 May 2006 02:17:40 -0000
>@@ -3825,12 +3825,20 @@
> 	      the inclusion of <filename>bsd.port.pre.mk</filename>.
> 	      The <makevar>WITH_*</makevar> and <makevar>WITHOUT_*</makevar>
> 	      variables can only be tested after the inclusion of
>-	      <filename>bsd.port.pre.mk</filename>.  Due to a deficiency
>-	      in the infrastructure, you can only test
>-	      <makevar>WITH_*</makevar> variables for options, which are
>+	      <filename>bsd.port.pre.mk</filename>.</para>
>+
>+	    <para>
>+	      Due to a deficiency in the infrastructure, you can only test
>+	      <makevar>WITH_*</makevar> variables for options which are
> 	      <literal>OFF</literal> by default, and
>-	      <makevar>WITHOUT_*</makevar> variables for options, which
>-	      defaults to <literal>ON</literal>.</para>
>+	      <makevar>WITHOUT_*</makevar> variables for options which
>+	      default to <literal>ON</literal>.  The reason for this is
>+	      that when packages are built on the build cluster, or if
>+	      <makevar>BATCH</makevar> is defined, the <command>config</command>
>+	      target is not run, and therefore no <makevar>OPTIONS</makevar>
>+	      are defined. This would cause <command>make depends</command> and
>+	      <command>make describe</command> to break for ports not following
>+	      the aforementioned rule.</para>
> 
> 	<sect3>
> 	  <title>Example</title>

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