fwd: CFR: patch to cleanup usage of SRC_BASE in various ports

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> (from Wed, 1 Dec 2010  
15:33:35 +0000):

> On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 01:22:20PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> If you have a strong argument for this change, I do not object to it,
>> but if you do not have a strong argument, I would prefer to not get
>> this change.
>
> The problem I have is that I want pointyhat to build an INDEX based on
> what is the current "best recommended value" of the linux emulation,
> not whatever happens to be on pointyhat at the moment.  (It turns out
> that right now this "Just Works" on pointyhat but only so; it does not
> work on the new codebase on pointyhat-west, where a very minimal subset
> of ports is installed).

Looks like a strong argument to make the change. :)

> Just setting LINUX_OSRELEASE at the top level didn't seem to work; it
> appears the != line overrides that setting.

Yes, it is evaluated after your command line or env settings, not before.

> How about this?  We change the override to only work if PACKAGE_BUILDING
> is set?

This looks like a good plan.

Bye,
Alexander.

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