New /bin/sh based script to manage ports

[Stijn Hoop]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 06:50:41PM +0900, KOMATSU Shinichiro wrote:
> Stijn Hoop wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:45:01AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> > 
> >>However, the other two present a chicken and 
> >>egg problem if I choose to use 'make -V' to get the values of these 
> >>variables (where do I cd to?).
> > 
> > 
> > Why do you need to cd?
> > 
> > [stijn at tangaloor] </tmp> ls Makefile
> > ls: Makefile: No such file or directory
> > [stijn at tangaloor] </tmp> make -V PORTSDIR
> > /net/freebsd/ports
> 
> PORTSDIR is set in bsd.port.mk, which is not included
> if you do not explicitly include it by ".include <bsd.port.mk>".
> Don't you set it in /etc/make.conf or environment variable?
> 
> Recently I thought the same problem, and
> the best solution I came up with till now is
> running the following command:
> 
>     % echo '.include <bsd.port.mk>' | make -f - -V PORTSDIR
> 
> I will add this into portupgrade in later release
> (after solving the MOVED problem...).

Ah, of course. That is probably the best solution, indeed.

--Stijn

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