From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Dec 19 2:38: 2 2000 From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 02:38:00 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A0737B402 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 02:37:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA01291; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:37:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Sender: des@ofug.org X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Jeremy Norris Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4 Port References: <20001217004251.A47353@external.org> <20001218134601.A5634@FreeBSD.org> <20001219040318.B7935@babylon.merseine.nu> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 19 Dec 2000 11:37:53 +0100 In-Reply-To: Jeremy Norris's message of "Tue, 19 Dec 2000 04:03:18 -0600" Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jeremy Norris writes: > What about doing the following in each of the XFree86-4-subports: > MASTERDIR=${PORTSDIR}/x11/XFree86-4 > WRKDIR=${MASTERDIR}/work > Then make XFree86-4 like other meta-ports, except have it fetch the > distfiles. > > Thus all the XFree86-4-subports could share the same working directory, no? No, because the ports system keeps metadata in WRKDIR. You might be able to get away with WRKSRC=${MASTERDIR}/work/xc though. But it'd be very tricky to get all the targets (especially the fetch, extract and patch targets) for each port right. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message