Explain staging

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 07:22:35AM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
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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

Which port is that? Maybe I can help?

regards,
Bapt
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