Re: Application of package options from within buildlink3.mk?

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

* On 2025-06-20 at 16:16 BST, Havard Eidnes wrote:

> > > Ref. that work/.stage-install_makevars.mk file which appears to
> > > act as a cache remembering wrong settings in my case.
> >
> > Work directories must _always_ be removed if _anything_ changes.
>
> Of course.  That's why I was surprised.
>
> Remember, what I said I did was:
>
> - Remove all work dirs from the /usr/pkgsrc tree
> - Update pkgsrc to HEAD
> - Do "make update" in textproc/libxml2/
>
> How that .stage-install_makevars.mk file came into being after
> this, and how it came to contain the wrong values I have no idea
> about.  I don't think any of my actions should have caused that
> to happen.

The way PKG_BUILD_OPTIONS works is to query the currently installed 
package.  My guess is that you had a much older package installed at the 
start, "pkg_info -Q PKG_OPTIONS" for that old package returned empty, 
and that value was cached and ultimately used even though at some point 
later the installed package was updated with the correct option.

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