Check out man 1 ebuild and man 5 ebuild. It uses directories in /var/tmp.
The source itself (if it's a tarball) is kept in /usr/portage/distfiles. Cvs
stuff in in the distfiles under cvs-src.
The variables are defined in /etc/make.conf - see the comments in it and by
the ebuild programs themselves.
> Hi,
> I'm looking for the location that emerge/ebuild places the source
> code prior to building it.
>
> 1) I've found the ebuild itself in /usr/portage/<group>/<package>
>
> and...
>
> 2) I've found the tarball in /usr/portage/distfiles
>
> but...
>
> I cannot spot where the source itself actually resides. Unfortunately
> for me the ebuild reads like a foreign language as I'm not a programmer.
> It seems to say the source would be in ${FILESDIR} but trying something
> like 'echo ${FILESDIR}' as root returns nothing.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark
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