> On Nov 24, 2016, at 11:16 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thursday November 24 2016 14:45:33 MacPorts wrote: > >> I’m not convinced that this should remain. Since it’s created in >> `workpath`, it still gets trashed on `port clean`, so I don’t see how it’s >> any more permanent than the logfile. > > The important thing is that it remains as long as there has been no > `port clean` or equivalent. And as long as that doesn't happen the > file is infinitely more permanent than the logfile from the moment you > repeat any port command that is part of the build sequence (and that > isn't `port configure`, evidently).
Because the logfile gets overwitten? Okay, sure. > And that's the only sort of "more permanent" that is being aimed at > - should anyone want to keep the information *after* the port clean > they can simply copy the file; copying for a file with a standard name > is more practical than filtering the log at the appropriate time. I have no doubt that you find this useful, but its sole purpose is to aid a particular portfile development style that I doubt is common. So I don't think it merits nearly 30 lines of cmake-1.1.tcl. vq
