From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 29 07:54:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA0E106566B for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:54:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aehlig@linta.de) Received: from linta.de (isilmar-3.linta.de [188.40.101.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F218FC08 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:54:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 2524 invoked by uid 10); 29 Sep 2010 07:54:07 -0000 Received: from curry.linta.de by isilmar.linta.de with BSMTP; 29 Sep 2010 07:54:07 -0000 Received: by curry.linta.de (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CEDEA1CC1D; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:53:59 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:53:59 +0200 From: "Klaus T. Aehlig" To: Scot Hetzel Message-ID: <20100929075359.GH10381@curry.linta.de> References: <20100929072844.GG10381@curry.linta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100929072844.GG10381@curry.linta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Dmitry Pryanishnikov , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using portmaster with different PYTHON_VERSION X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:54:09 -0000 Hi everybody, sorry for the noise. > > MASTERDIR= ${.CURDIR}/../py-httplib2 > > shouldn't that be > > MASTERDIR=${PORTSDIR}/www/py-httplib2 > > Or have I misunderstood something here? I obviously did. At least the example in porters' handbook and all slave ports use ${.CURDIR}/../ Could some help me improve my understanding and explain why it is preferable to refer to the location of the current port in the file system rathen than to a particular port in the ports tree? Best reagrds and please excuse my last mail. Klaus