MacPorts 2.11.0: oddly named workdirs

[Chris Jones]

Hi,

On 14/07/2025 9:32 am, Sergey Fedorov wrote:
> It is not a bug, but a feature? Workdirs are no longer named after 
> ports, but start with a few letters of a ports name, followed by random 
> characters.

Yeah, I've noticed this and I have found it interferes with the use of 
ccache when building ports. I have enabled this for all my port builds, 
as I am often working on large ports (LLVM) and it *really* helps with 
rebuilds. However, this new feature seems to result in the build dir 
being different each rebuild, due to the random characters, and this of 
course renders the ccache invalid and useless.

How is this random string created, and why does it change whenever I 
make small portfile changes ?

Is there a way to disable this random string and go back to something 
similar to before, particularly when the use of ccache is enabled ?

Chris