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Date:      Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:03:16 +0200
From:      Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
To:        Tom Alsberg <alsbergt@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: /usr/ports symlink + make search
Message-ID:  <D6FAD32C-BEAA-11D8-9250-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040615083216.GA24712@cs.huji.ac.il>

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Tom Alsberg wrote:

> With the new ports/Mk/bsd.port.subdir.mk, make search (seems like a
> quite revamped awk script, relative to the old one) checks the second
> field of INDEX to be the same as `pwd` (eventually, through awk -v
> there=$here, here=`pwd`)...
>
> That breaks when /usr/ports is a symbolic link to somewhere else
> (e.g. we have the ports in a centralized location, /usr/ports is a
> symlink to /r+d/ports, and it is read only - work is done in
> $WRKDIRPREFIX set to a writeable location).
> [...]

Could you please send-pr this, so that it doesn't get lost?

-Oliver



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