Re: xorg package problems?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:46:09 +0900
"OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:05:01 +0900, Steven M. Bellovin
> <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:39:33 -0400
> > "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >> >
> >> > Now META_PACKAGE trick is moved to bsd.prefs.mk.
> >> > You must move META_PACKAGE=yes line to before include
> >> > bsd.prefs.mk.
> >> >
> >> Thanks -- that seems to have done it.
> >>
> > Correction -- that fixed modular-xorg-drivers.  modular-xorg-libs
> > will require something more.  Just what isn't obvious to me.  There
> > was no bsd.prefs.mk; simply adding one doesn't seem to do the trick.
> 
> Probably bsd.prefs.mk is included in certain buildlnk3.mk files.
> 
> We hardly know from whare bsd.prefs.mk will be included.
> So, bsd.prefs.mk should not have ".if" drirectives
> with package-settable variables.
> 
Right -- moving bsd.prefs.mk to near the top of the Makefile fixed it.
I note that modular-xorg-drivers uses DEPENDS, while modular-xorg-libs
uses lots of buildlink3 includes.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb