Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:48:08 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org> To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WRKSRC Message-ID: <20030322114808.GA6323@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20030322114224.GA19927@comp.chem.msu.su> References: <20030322114224.GA19927@comp.chem.msu.su>
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On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 02:42:24PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The FreeBSD Porter's Handbook, subsection 4.8.1, reads:
>
> 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
>
> That is while in reality one has to write:
>
> WRKSRC= ${WRKDIR}/foo
>
> since WRKSRC is treated by bsd.port.mk as a full pathname.
>
> So which one, the handbook or bsd.port.mk, is to be changed? Is
> there any reason to have this "${WRKDIR}/" stuff in each Makefile
> utilizing WRKSRC?
A quick grep seems to indicate that it would be easier to change the
handbook, but that's not necessarily the correct solution ;)
I've got PR misc/50137 assigned to me with a patch for the handbook;
I'll wait over the weekend to see what the consensus turns out to be.
Ceri
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