On Jan 17,  7:58am, davide zanon wrote:
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} Hi! sorry for bothering this list for the second time, but my messages
} *never* get through... and I really can't find any info on the net.
} I'm using Mac OS X 10.4.7, but I know this problem
} exists on .4.2 too. Whichever shell I use, bash or tcsh (my
} favourite) I cannot set any environment variable which contains
} a dot in its name (eg PKG_OPTIONS.<package>), so I don't
} have any control on pkgsrc build options. I only get:
} 
} tcsh: setenv: Syntax Error.
} 
} This is really annoying :)
} Can anyone help me about this? Thanks a lot!

     Set the option in mk.conf.  On NetBSD systems, mk.conf is in
/etc.  I don't know where it would be located on OS X.

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