Re: CONFIGURE_ARGS - ways other than edit Makefile?

[Anne Bennett <anne%porcupine.montreal.qc.ca@localhost>]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Roland Illig replied to me:

> > I wonder if there's a way to change a package's CONFIGURE_ARGS
> > without editing the Makefile directly, that is, by using a
> > command-line flag or by editing mk.conf or pkg_install.conf.

> No, there is no way. At least no universal, documented one.
[...]
> you can hack around that goal if you really want and must. Just 
> add the following lines to your mk.conf file:
>
> .if ${PKGPATH} == "x11/xlockmore-lite"
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --enable-syslog
> .endif

That worked!  Thank you.

> This works because the xlockmore package Makefile only appends its values to 
> that variable. And remember, using this method, you can only prepend values 
> to that variable. And you have no guarantee that this will work in the 
> future.

I have left a warning comment to myself about that in mk.conf.

In the short term, though, the hack helps me in two ways:

  - It means I can replace /usr/pkgsrc with the latest stable,
    and rebuild at will without worrying about having to replicate
    my modifications in there, and

  - I have a nightly cronjob that does a CVS-update, and parses
    the output to report anything of interest (files updated in
    packages I have installed, packages disappearing as just
    happened with graphics/xpm in 2009Q4, and unexpected files);
    this job was whining about my Makefile change.  I could have
    coded an exception, of course.

Anyway, again, thank you.

Anne.