Explain staging

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

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On 10/03/2013 04:54 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 10:58:56AM +0200, Alex Dupre wrote:
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>> Baptiste Daroussin ha scritto:
>>> Here you are: 
>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2013-October/086346.html
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>>> 
I
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>> was referring the the previous one: "[HEADSUP] Stage support for
>> the ports tree". Dunno if it had additional info or this second
>> one is enough.
>> 
> I mixed both in one :)

I do appreciate the explanations very much.

I am having a problem with a port in which if NO_STAGE is not set,
then the build part of the process fails.  As far as I can tell,
staging should not effect the build part of the process in any way.
So two questions:
1.  If I set NO_STAGE=yes in that port, is this going to be a big
problem?  It will have to be a work around until I can get the next
question answered:
2.  Any ideas on why staging would effect the build process?  The port
includes subpackages that use "./configure; make; make install" and
are supposed to install into $WRKSRC/local, but instead sometimes
installs into $WRKDIR/stage/portname/work/pkgname/local.

Thanks, Stephen
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