Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:40:08 +0100
From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>
To: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>
Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Conditionnal patches in ${PATCHDIR}
Message-ID: <458297A8.9030609@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061215121636.GY94832@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
References: <20061215121636.GY94832@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
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Jeremie Le Hen schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> (Please Cc: me in your replies.)
>
> I would like to apply a patch against a port conditionally, though I
> don't want to use ${PATCHFILES} because IIUC, this requires the patch
> to be stored remotely.
>
> My problem is that all files matching ${PATCHDIR}/patch-* are
> automatically applied.
>
> I tried to "fork" the port using ${MASTERDIR} and store my patch
> only in the forked port tree, but only patches in
> ${MASTERDIR}/${PATCHDIR} are applied, and patches in
> ${.CURDIR}/${PATCHDIR} are ignored.
>
> I didn't use to create ports, any advice would be welcome.
> Thank you very much.
> Best regards,
>
You can call the conditional patches extrapatch-* and add them to the
EXTRA_PATCHES macro, like
if defined(FOO)
EXTRA_PATCHES+= ${FILESDIR}/extrapatch-foo.c
.endif
See e.g. mail/courier.
Cheers,
Gabor
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