Re: "Please unset PKG_PATH before doing pkgsrc work!" message

[Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost>]

El 12/10/25 a las 9:53, Roland Illig escribió:
> Am 11.10.2025 um 11:39 schrieb Ramiro Aceves:
> > netbsd-nuc# pwd
> > /usr/pkgsrc/ham/xnec2c
> >
> > netbsd-nuc# make install
> > ERROR: This package has set PKG_FAIL_REASON:
> > ERROR: Please unset PKG_PATH before doing pkgsrc work!
> >
> > Does it happen to some packages or all packages?
>
> This happens to all packages. The wording of the message can be
> misunderstood easily since "This package has set" may sound like the
> package by itself did anything, but in this case, it was the pkgsrc
> infrastructure.


Thanks Roland. Yes, the message confuses a bit to the user>
> > Where is PKG_PATH checked?

netbsd-nuc# make help topic=PKG_PATH
No help found for PKG_PATH.


netbsd-nuc# make help topic=pkg_path
No help found for pkg_path, but it occurs in:

../mk/bsd.pkg.mk
../mk/bsd.utils.mk
../mk/install/bin-install.mk
../wip/mk/linuxbin.pkg.mk

Regards.



> To find out, you can run "make help topic=pkg_path". It says that the
> word pkg_path occurs in mk/bsd.pkg.mk and mk/bsd.utils.mk, among others.
>
> Roland