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

From: "Onat ISIK" <onatto@gmail.com>
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 23:27:43 +0300

 On 6/29/06, Antoine Reilles <Antoine.Reilles@loria.fr> wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/33864; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: Antoine Reilles <Antoine.Reilles@loria.fr>
 > 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 14:10:35 +0200
 >
 >  --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0
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 >  > >How-To-Repeat:
 >  > Try to build devel/SDL or multimedia/mplayer by setting the variable
 >  > PKG_OPTIONS.<package name>+=-arts.
 >  > >Fix:
 >
 >  A workaround for this problem is to set in /etc/mk.conf
 >  PKG_OPTIONS.SDL+= -arts
 >  when you have -arts in PKG_OPTIONS.mplayer
 >
 >  Maybe having simply
 >  PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS+= -arts
 >  in /etc/mk.conf is the best choice
 >
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 >
 Thank you very much. It worked by defining the variables in /etc/mk.conf
 It was possible to define the variables on the command line before the last
 update. I think, that confused me.