On Aug 31, 2019, at 07:31, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:
> A description of the "build.dir" & "configure.dir" keywords are missing
>
> I only discovered these keywords by accident by looking in a Portfile
> for help with exactly these issues : changing into a directory before a
> python install
>
> Possible description :
> build.dir
> Changes into this directory before building. Default is ${worksrcpath}
> Example :
> build.dir ${worksrcpath}/${name}-apache
>
> Possible description :
> configure.dir
> Changes into this directory before configuring. Default is ${worksrcpath}
> Example :
> configure.dir ${worksrcpath}/${name}-apache
Indeed, every "command" has a number of common options, including ".dir".
I see that the guide does specifically mention autoconf.dir, automake.dir,
autoreconf.dir, and patch.dir, but it's a bit redundant to have to describe
each one when the description is the same (though it's true that the default
value is not the same for all of them).
As I've said for years, the whole guide needs to be thrown out and rewritten
from scratch. :(
