On 07/22/03 Mark Knecht wrote:
> WORKDIR = "${PORTAGE_TMPDIR}/portage/${PF}/work"
> or
> FILESDIR = "${PORTDIR}/${CATEGORY}/${PN}/files"
>
> WORKDIR seems to work out to /var/tmp/portage/<package>/work, which
> doesn't exist on my machine:
>
> Wizard alsa-driver # cd /var/tmp/portage/alsa-driver-0.9.5-r2/
> Wizard alsa-driver-0.9.5-r2 # ls
> temp
> Wizard alsa-driver-0.9.5-r2 #
>
> Has some process cleaned this up? Maybe this is my problem? I'm trying
> to get to the Alsa source to do a patch. I know it used to be here,
> but tonight I cannot find it.
>
> There's nothing of apparent interest in FILESDIR, although one
> directory higher is the ebuild that I was reading through.
>
> Thanks in advance for pointing me so kindly in the right directions.
WORKDIR is created by emerge/ebuild when emerging a package and cleaned
after that if there was no error. You can change the behavior in
/etc/make.conf with the FEATURES variable (IIRC it was noclean).
Marius
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