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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


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