Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 02:00:58 +0300 From: "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa@freebsd.org.ru> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Possible doc bug in porter's handbook Message-ID: <20030321230058.GU49925@freebsd.org.ru>
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 09:50:28PM +0100, Henrik Motakef wrote:
> Quote from the porter's handbook:
> ,-
> | 4.8.1 WRKSRC
> |
> | The variable lists the name of the directory that is created when the
> | application's distfiles are extracted. If our previous example
> | extracted into a directory called foo (and not foo-1.0) you would
> | write:
> |
> | WRKSRC= foo
> |
> | or possibly
> |
> | WRKSRC= ${PORTNAME}
> `-
>
> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-wrkdir.html>;
>
> If I'm not mistaken, this is wrong, because ${WRKSRC} is supposed to
> be an absolute path, e.g. "${WRKDIR}/foo". Am I confused, or should I
> send a patch to the doc team?
AFAIK you're right.
Just look at ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk and find description of
WRKDIR/WRKSRC variables.
Please, if it possible, make a patch and create PR
via send-pr(1) interface.
Thanks for your report.
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