cvs commit: ports/net/asterisk Makefile

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:13:55PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> >>No, as I said, this is a supported configuration.  Moreover, I'm sure
> >>it's common for people to move their ports collection from /usr/ports
> >>to some other location and replace it with a symlink (in fact I've
> >>done that myself), and this works for all 10364 ports except yours,
> >>prior to this commit.
> >
> >
> >I still think that you aren't quite correct. You (and everyone who want 
> >to move /usr/ports over) should have set PORTSDIR to its real location 
> >(that is /a/ports in bento scripts), which would allow 
> >'${WRKDIRPREFIX}${PORTSDIR}/' in ports Makefiles instead of much uglier 
> >${WRKDIR}/../../../' (or eaquially ugly construct involving .CURDIR). 
> >The latter is worse because in this case it is impossible to put ports 
> >directory (e.g. asterisk in this case) anywhere in the file system not 
> >in the ${PORTSDIR} and have it building just fine, which is possible 
> >with the former. IMO, this is much common and useful feature than 
> >ability to move /usr/ports with the help of symlink.
> 
> Also my version of behaviour is documented (ans has been for a long 
> time) as the One True Way[tm], so that I'd suggest you to fix bento scripts.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/porting-wrkdirprefix.html

That seems to be a bug in the documentation (note that it's internally
inconsistent because it refers to both ${WRKDIRPREFIX}${PORTSDIR} and
${WRKDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR} as the "correct" way to reference a port's
${WRKDIR} depending on whether that port is the current or another
one).

To repeat, 10364 ports don't have a problem with this policy that has
been deliberately enforced by bento since before I came along.  Your 1
port did.  The numbers are really not on your side for making a
persuasive argument here, and I'm sure we both have better things to
do with our time than to continue to debate it.

Kris
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