unorthodox build setup?

[Mark Brethen]

I’d have to patch makefile and config.ac, at least. Can set variables be exported to global?  


Mark Brethen
mark.brethen at gmail.com



> On Oct 4, 2018, at 11:57 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Oct 4, 2018, at 11:55, Mark Brethen wrote:
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>> There’s just one glitch, the name of the build directory is determined by 
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>> BUILD = $(shell ../../scripts/findhost.sh $(shell src/config.guess))
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>> I can set it after the extract phase like so
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>> post-extract {
>> set builddir [exec ${worksrcpath}/scripts/findhost.sh [exec ${worksrcpath}/config.guess]]
>> configure.dir ${worksrcdir}/${builddir}
>> }
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>> but then configure.dir isn't global for the config/build phases, is it?
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> That's correct.
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> Can you fix the build system so that it uses a predictable build directory name (such as "build"), and then use that name in the portfile?
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