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Subject: Re: portlint check to dependency pathname
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * >Can't you just use the whole "${PORTSDIR}/x11/libsx" thing?
 * 
 * 	Yes I plan to use that.
 * 	I was unsure about the interpretation of ${PORTSDIR} in portlint.
 * 	(Should it be "/usr/ports", or should it be "../..".  While testing
 * 	a port people may not be using /usr/ports...)

It should be /usr/ports if the environment variable is not set.  (To
be strict, you should check /etc/make.conf too, but that's probably
asking too much.)  If people have a complete tree, they should have
${PORTSDIR} set to that -- if not, "../.." won't help anyway.

Satoshi