port make?

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Dec 8, 2011, at 8:52 AM, John B Brown wrote:

> Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>>> Any help? (really my reason for writing this is "shouldn't there be a
>>> $ port make or shouldn't $ port build re-run it?
>> 
>> You might become familiar with the various phases available:
>> http://guide.macports.org/#reference.phases
>> or the man page.
>> Rather than going past all the phases and installing the package, you might consider completing only the phases before where you need the modify the package source code and then running the remainder.
>> As you did in your previous email, keep -s on so you don't accidentally clobber all your work with a pre-built binary from MacPorts.

> 
> 	The reference was enlightening, but what does ${worksrcpath} mean?

From the same page:
    worksrcpath
    Full path to extracted source code.
    Value: ${workpath}/${worksrcdir}

Because ${worksrcpath} can be changed by adding a "worksrcdir" the description might better read:
    Full path to directory where port commands are executed from.

Look at the definition for "worksrcdir" on the same page.


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)