Re: pkgsrc oddities/bugs

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:50:50PM +0200, M.K. wrote:
> 1) Shouldn't there be a 'nls' option allowing us to have

IMO this is pretty pointless and will just increase maintaince.

> 3) The pkgsrc guide states:
> 
> > * PKGMAKECONF: Location of the mk.conf file used by a package's BSD-style
> >   Makefile. If this is not set, MAKECONF is set to /dev/null to avoid 
> > picking
> >   up settings used by builds in /usr/src.
> 
> However, pkgsrc reads /etc/mk.conf and uses the options set there, e.g.
> USE_INET6, despite PKGMAKECONF being unset. Is this a bug? Or maybe the docs
> are too old?

PKGMAKECONF != MAKECONF. You can use
.if defined(BSD_PKG_MK)
...
.else
...
.endif

to distinguish between pkgsrc and src.

Joerg