On 31/07/2007, at 16:52, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 02:59:53PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
>> 	Its currently not possible to add checks to mk.conf based
>> 	on the PKGNAME, as various packages set PKGNAME _after_
>> 	mk.conf has been included - such as firefox, ups-nut,
>> 	ap-php.
>
> Given that we want to change PKGNAME based on options, this is pretty
> hard to do. It can *never* be fully evaluated in mk.conf for that
> reason. It can be partially evaluated with the implementation I  
> have in
> mind, have but not fully.
>
>> 	    c) Have an option for mk.conf to be included a second time
>> 	       after everything else has been evaluated, for example if
>> 	       a variable like 'MK_CONF_POSTINCLUDE' is set in mk.conf, it
>> 	       will be included a second time after everything else with
>> 	       a flag to indicate it is the post include
>
> Refused. Has too much foot-shooting potential.
>
> Why can't you just use the PKGPATH (e.g. via .CURDIR) like everyone  
> else
> does?

Because that is ugly?  I'd much much rather have a "PKGDIR" variable  
that tells me the package I'm building (x/y) than have to deduce that  
from .CURDIR.

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>