Error on FreeBSD Porter's Handbook - Section 5.4.6?

[Geoff Roberts]

Hi,

I have just been working on a port that uses some patches on FreeBSD 5.4

I read the section "5.4.6 PATCHFILES" at:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-distfiles.html

In that section the comment is made:
"If the patch is not relative to the top of the source tree (i.e., WRKSRC) 
because it contains some extra pathnames, set PATCH_DIST_STRIP accordingly. 
For instance, if all the pathnames in the patch have an extra foozolix-1.0/ 
in front of the filenames, then set PATCH_DIST_STRIP=-p1."

However this would not work. Looking through /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.ports.mk it 
would seem the appropriate variable is: PATCH_STRIP

This variable also seems to work appropriately.

Have I misunderstood the process or could there an error in the documentation.

Kind regards,

Geoff

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