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Subject: Re: bsd.port.mk
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=)
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 * thud-mit-scheme % make "DISTDIR = ../.."
 * Checksums OK.
 * ===>  Extracting for mit-scheme
 * tar: can't open archive ../../scheme-microcode+dist-7.3-freebsd.tgz : No such file or directory
 * tar: child returned status 3

Well, look at this line in bsd.port.mk:

  if ! (cd ${WRKDIR};${EXTRACT_CMD} ${EXTRACT_BEFORE_ARGS} ${DISTDIR}/$$file ${EXTRACT_AFTER_ARGS});\

The problem is that we've changed bsd.port.mk a while back to have "cd
${WRKDIR}" before "${EXTRACT_CMD}" so that we can use unzip, etc.,
that doesn't have the equivalent to "-C" in tar.

So relative pathnames in DISTDIRs don't work anymore, which was
obviously an oversight at that time.  You can still use absolute
pathnames for alternative DISTDIRs while we figure out how to fix
this.  Any ideas, anyone?

Satoshi