unknown +variant silently ignored

Jeremy Lavergne jeremy at lavergne.me
Wed Jan 3 21:02:43 UTC 2018


A (human) workaround is to verify you've typed it correctly with the
`port variants` command:

  port variants bitcoin +qt5

On 01/03/2018 02:34 PM, Jan Stary wrote:
> I just built "bitcoin +qt5", only to realize its "bitcoin +gui".
> While build the noneexistent +qt5 variant, the default variant
> was buit (which happens to be +daemon+wallet).
> 
> Is it intentional that a nonexistent variant is _silently_ ignored?
> Wouldn't it be less surprising if MP stopped with an error?
> Currently, a typo can result in something the user didnt want,
> eventhough it was easily avoidable.
> 
> 	Jan
> 



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