Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:55:50 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Different PATCH_ARGS for PATCHFILES possible? Message-ID: <4234C4F6.3060207@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4234BCFF.6060105@FreeBSD.org> References: <4234BCFF.6060105@FreeBSD.org>
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Doug Barton wrote:
> I have not had to mess with PATCHFILES before, however I've now had to
> add extra patches twice in a month and run into the same problem. In
> both cases I had to add patches that were supplied by the vendor
> relative to a different directory than our patches are, and I've been
> unable to find a way to specify PATCH_ARGS differently for just those
> patches.
>
> The (cheesy) solution I've come to so far is to sed the directory
> patterns in the patch and then use EXTRA_PATCHES, but is there a better
> way?
Hrrm, I may have answered my own question. It seems that with a little
massaging PATCH_DIST_ARGS does what I want, but it's undocumented. If
someone can confirm that this mechanism won't go away any time soon, I could
send in a patch to bsd.port.mk that documents this behavior.
Doug
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