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Hello

I've noticed that many ports are using ${.CURDIR}/../../some/port 
construction in their Makefiles.

But if you copy on of these ports elsewhere it won't work as expected 
because of the relative path.
Shouldn't they use ${PORTSDIR}/some/port instead?

Thanks for the replies.

Kozlov Sergey