COPYTREE_BIN/COPYTREE_SHARE does not work as expected

Pawel Pekala pawel at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jul 6 13:36:41 UTC 2014


Dnia 2014-07-05, o godz. 12:04:57
Mikolaj Golub <trociny at FreeBSD.org> napisał(a):

>Hi,
>
>It looks like COPYTREE_BIN/COPYTREE_SHARE does not work as it is
>documented in bsd.port.mk:
>
>#                 Example use: 
>#                 cd ${WRKSRC}/doc && ${COPYTREE_SHARE} . ${DOCSDIR}
>"! -name *.bak" #
>#                 Installs all directories and files from ${WRKSRC}/doc
>#                 to ${DOCSDIR} except sed backup files.
>
>If there is a "*.bak" file in . directory (e.g. test.bak), "*.bak" is
>expanded to this name, the condition "! -name *.bak" becomes "! -name
>test.bak", and other *.bak files are ignored.
>
>Worse, if there are several "*.bak" files, "*.bak" is expanded to the
>list and COPYTREE_SHARE fails.

I made a mistake while documenting this macros, as '*' is a shell
wildcard it should be quoted. I believe the correct example should be:

cd ${WRKSRC}/doc && ${COPYTREE_SHARE} . ${DOCSDIR} "! -name "*.bak""

-- 
pozdrawiam / with regards
Paweł Pękala


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