The following reply was made to PR pkg/33864; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: joerg@britannica.bec.de
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/33864: arts is listed as an option but disabling it causes mplayer or SDL to fail to build
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:55:39 +0200

 On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 12:05:00PM +0000, onatto@gmail.com wrote:
 > The problem involves devel/SDL and multimedia/mplayer packages and
 > probably some others which has an option "arts". These packages list
 > "arts" as an option when requested by "make show-options" but they 
 > fail to build when arts is disabled by "PKG_OPTIONS.SDL+=-arts" or
 > "PKG_OPTIONS.mplayer+=-arts". They give an error "arts is not 
 > installed, can't buildlink". Although not directly relevant, the 
 > reason I don't wan't to build arts is that it depends on qt and it
 > takes ages to build it.
 
 This typically means that the work directory was not clean and partly
 left from an earlier run. Did you run make clean after setting the
 variable?
 
 Joerg