MacPorts 2.11.0: oddly named workdirs

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Mon Jul 14 12:53:01 UTC 2025


Thanks. On a quick test that seems to have fixed the problem, the build 
dir is now stable between consecutive runs.

Chris

On 14/07/2025 1:25 pm, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 14/7/2025 21:21, Chris Jones wrote:
>>
>> I think this is effectively the only fix, find a way to have something 
>> slightly less random than we have now. Maybe some sort of string hash 
>> of meta-data related to the port that results in a 'random' string but 
>> one that doesn't change if the port is rebuilt with no portfile 
>> changes, or just small ones (that don't e.g. change the port version 
>> or things like that).
> Try this.
> 
> - Josh



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