Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 23:13:31 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: grog@lemis.com Cc: kjk1@ukc.ac.uk, questions@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Suggestion for ports... Message-ID: <199709120613.XAA28640@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <19970912090848.35102@lemis.com> (message from Greg Lehey on Fri, 12 Sep 1997 09:08:48 %2B0930)
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* > I do have a small suggestion (I haven't tried this, so it may already * > exist). I noticed that make uses a `work' directory to compile in. How * > about making it so that if make finds the file system read-only and is * > unable to create a work directory, it defaults to (for example) * > `/tmp/<portname>.work'. That way, the casual ports user can do * Not to my knowledge. I'm copying FreeBSD-ports on this for other * opinions, but personally I don't think that's too important. When * you're done, you can always do a 'make clean' to get rid of the stuff * you don't need. Actually, I have been thinking about this (and some more) for some time. Having to be able to go to, say, /cdrom/ports/editors/emacs and simply say "make install clean" is nice. However, simply redefining WRKDIR doesn't really work because there are so many ports right now that creates files (most notably, pkg/PLIST) in places other than that. I am also thinking about a mechanism to automatically "filter" them in WRKDIR so the user can sed it all he wants. Satoshi
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