how to control distfile extraction

Tue May 12 17:05:20 PDT 2009

On 2009-05-13 01:21, Darren Weber wrote:
> I have the two variants defined above (plus additional post-destroot
> statements).  It appears that the data distfile is still extracted.  Is it
> true that the 'eval extract.only' statement can be used and effective in
> multiple variants? The idea here is not to extract any of the data or doc
> distfiles.

No, it is not true. Better set extract.only outside the variants. Also,
I would rather list the individual files to be extracted (but using
${distname} etc.) instead of relying on ${distfiles}.

Rainer