cross-port ${filespath} access?

[Clemens Lang]

Hi,

----- On 14 Apr, 2015, at 12:46, René J.V. Bertin rjvbertin at gmail.com wrote:

> It would be nice if one could bundle all patches required for that single source
> archive with the main port, rather than distribute (or even copy) them
> over/among the various other ports that build from that same source archive.

Rather than copying, you could also use symlinks, but I'd still argue that's a
bad idea...

> It's possible to set dist_subdir so that one can at least avoid to download and
> store the archive multiple times; is there an equivalent to set ${filespath} to
> `port dir ${mainport}`/files ?

Trace mode will deny access to these files if you do that.

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Clemens Lang