Thanks for the detailed introduction.
It works!
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 09:39:53PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 09/02/2013 18:37, meta wrote:
> > Porter's handbook section 12.3 mentions WRKDIREPREFIXPORTSDIR,
> > but I can't find it anywhere.
> >
> > $ grep WRKDIRPREFIXPORTSDIR /usr/ports/Mk/*
> > -> not found
> > $ find /usr/ports -name Makefile -depth 3 | xargs grep WRKDIRPREFIXPORTSDIR
> > -> not found
> >
> > Is it obsolete and has it disappeared? What's the alternative?
>
> That looks like a flaw in the way the Porter's Handbook is converted
> into HTML.
>
> There isn't a variable 'WRKDIRPREFIXPORTSDIR' [*] as the PH apparently
> claims there is. Instead there are two variables:
>
> ${WRKDIRPREFIX}
> ${PORTSDIR}
>
> So: taking the www/apache22 port as an example, and setting WRKDIRPREFIX
> to a distinct value as it's usually empty, we see:
>
> % cd /usr/ports/www/apache22
> % setenv WRKDIRPREFIX /usr/obj
> % make -V WRKDIRPREFIX
> /usr/obj
> % make -V PORTSDIR
> /usr/ports
> % make -V WRKDIR
> /usr/obj/usr/ports/www/apache22/work
>
> So you can see that ${WRKDIR} is composed as:
>
> ${WRKDIRPREFIX}${PORTSDIR}/www/apache22/work
>
> All the $-signs and other punctuation seems to have gone missing from
> that section in the PH.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
> [*] Nor indeed WRKDIREPREFIXPORTSDIR, but that was probably a typo.
>
> --
> Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
>
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