Re: make show-depends-options or show-options-depends?

["Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost>]

from Thomas Klausner:

> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 11:28:05PM -0700, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > Thanks for the response.  I don't know why anybody would want to remove 
> > show-depends-options.

> It was not removed on purpose, it was a bug, which obache fixed.
> Please try again after updating your pkgsrc tree -- it should work
> again now.

> > I notice show-depends-options is headed by .PHONY .
> > What effect would that have on "make show-depends-options"?

> This means that there is no actual file on the disk that is called
> 'show-depends-options', nor that make(1) should look for one or
> consider it if for some strange reason it does exist.
>  Thomas

There was a power outage of 39 minutes.  

I shutdown the computer rather than wait for the OptiUps battery to run all the 
way down.
        
On rebooting later, I booted a NetBSD USB stick installation for the specific 
purpose of testing "make show-depends-options".

It worked.

Normally a make target such as "show-depends-options" is something in the 
Makefile and not a separate file named for the target.

I hope to update the modular Xorg and also build hplip for my printer, on 
NetBSD 6.1 amd64 and perhaps also i386.

With modular Xorg, I will keep a version of xorg.conf, with a modified name, 
with 
Driver "vesa"
just for a fallback in case the intel driver doesn't work at all.

Tom