Re: How to correctly reference WRKSRC of another port?

 
Van: Philipp Ost <pj@smo.de>
Datum: maandag, 24 mei 2021 20:16
Aan: ports@freebsd.org
Onderwerp: How to correctly reference WRKSRC of another port?
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> Hi everyone,
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> I'm currently working on a port (my first ;-)) which has a (optional) build time dependency on the sources of math/nauty.
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> Currently, I've hardwired '/usr/ports/math/nauty/work/nauty27r1' as argument to the configure script, but that's clearly not the way to do it.
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> The Porter's Handbook mentions using WRKDIRPREFIXPORTSDIR [0], but that does not work. A search for WRKDIRPREFIXPORTSDIR in /usr/ports/Mk comes up empty. Do I explicitly have to define this variable?
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> I've set NAUTY_BUILD_DEPENDS=nauty>0:math/nauty:extract. How do I correctly reference nauty's WRKSRC?
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> It would be nice if anyone could point me in the right direction.
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> Thanks in advance!
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> Philipp
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> [0] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/porting-dads/#porting-wrkdirprefix
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Hi,

I have no opinion on this, but just trying to think along.
Isn't it easier to add the math/nauty sources to the DISTFILES of your port?

Ronald.