From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jun 26 6:34:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [209.98.143.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D3F337B6FE; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 06:34:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from bone.nectar.com (bone.nectar.com [10.0.1.105]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E279B2D; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 08:34:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: by bone.nectar.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 103471DC6; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 08:33:53 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 08:33:53 -0500 From: "Jacques A . Vidrine" To: Dan Langille Cc: Will Andrews , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, cjh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why the extra ../ in some makefiles? Message-ID: <20000626083352.A18625@bone.nectar.com> References: <3957AC72.23630.6C459D2F@localhost>; <20000626032658.P85886@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <3957B28B.19309.6C5D6DA5@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3957B28B.19309.6C5D6DA5@localhost>; from dan@langille.org on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 07:44:11PM +1200 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 07:44:11PM +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > > Because it is the masterdir for many www/*netscape* ports. > > Ummm, OK. But it is essentially /a/b/../b/. > > There must be something within the structure I'm not understanding. Slave ports point to the master via ../. The master is a slave to itself. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message