Re: pkg/44695: Please add build setting for multi-packages to _BUILD_DEFS [patch]

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/44695; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/44695: Please add build setting for multi-packages to 
_BUILD_DEFS [patch]
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:48:43 +0200

  >> +# Store the build options for multi-packages, i.e. packages that can
  >> +# be built with multiple versions of Apache, Python, Ruby, PHP etc.
  >> +#
  >> +.if defined(MULTI)
  >> +_BUILD_DEFS+=            MULTI
  >> +.endif
  >> +
 >  
 >  This is wrong, since MULTI is not a property that changes the build of
 >  the package.
 "Build information" contains a lot of things that do not affect the
 build, for example, FILE_NAME, LICENSE, MAINTAINER, BUILD_DATE,
 BUILD_HOST and so on. MULTI *contains* build settings for
 multi-packages, all of them in just one variable.
 
 -- 
 Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.