Q about post-extract recent commit breakage

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 3, 2018, at 09:55, Michael Dickens wrote:

> Re: < https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/7921b2e05e9a4c9cda6efedee496affb305dcc07 >:
> {{{
> Date:   December 29, 2017 at 10:54:09 AM EST
> Author: Andrew L. Moore slewsys at ...
> Committed by Mojca Miklavec mojca at ...
> 
> portextract: Create symlink if no $worksrcpath
> 
> If expected extract path doesn't exist, create a symlink
> from expected directory to the actual one.
> If $worksrcdir is explicitly set, nothing is done.
> }}}
> 
> This commit breaks the extract for "cmake-devel". Is the issue with the Portfile, or with the commit? I'll look into this issue when I have a chance, but maybe someone else (Mojca?) will get there first! - MLD

That PR was submitted a year ago. It was high time to merge it.

https://github.com/macports/macports-base/pull/55

It was hoped that this would make many ports easier to write, without needing to set worksrcdir. Much testing was done to determine what negative impact this change might have, and some ports were identified that needed changes to be compatible with this. Most of those ports were already fixed to be compatible with both current MacPorts and the above PR. Looks like as of today only one port remains to be modified:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/1760

It is certainly possible that some ports were missed. If you need help figuring out what to do with cmake-devel, let us know what the error is.