Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 21:59:32 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> Cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposal: PRENAME variable Message-ID: <20000409215932.A75068@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <00040907122000.05113@nomad.dataplex.net> References: <200004090812.BAA04016@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <00040907122000.05113@nomad.dataplex.net>
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On Sun 2000-04-09 (07:12), Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > We can even put "PKGNAMEPREFIX=ja-" in ports/japanese/Makefile.inc and > > let the bsd.port.mk inclusion rule take care of most of the ports > > (except for those use MASTERDIR in another category). > > <devil's advocate> > Assume I have ports/discussion/myport and ports/japanese/discussion/myport > They depend on ports/discussion/mylib and ports/japanese/discussion/mylib > respectively. > They also depend on ports/discussion/commonlib > > Now, how do we create the references? > I worry that confusion will ensue if PKGNAMEPREFIX is automatically inserted > in some places, but not in others. The problem is analogous to the shell > conventions for relative vs absolute paths. > </devil's advocate> So long as PKGNAMEPREFIX isn't in the list of variables to propogate, this shouldn't be a problem. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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