svn commit: r50114 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 31 15:15:52 UTC 2017


Author: mat
Date: Fri Mar 31 15:15:50 2017
New Revision: 50114
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50114

Log:
  Remove ALWAYS_KEEP_DISTFILES, it is not used by anything.
  
  Sponsored by:	Absolight

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml	Thu Mar 30 23:06:52 2017	(r50113)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml	Fri Mar 31 15:15:50 2017	(r50114)
@@ -3145,39 +3145,6 @@ PATCHFILES=	patch1:test</programlisting>
 	  <filename>Makefile</filename>.</para>
       </note>
     </sect2>
-
-    <sect2 xml:id="makefile-always_keep_distfiles">
-      <title><varname>ALWAYS_KEEP_DISTFILES</varname></title>
-
-      <para>If the port uses binary distfiles and has a license that
-	requires that the source code is provided with packages
-	distributed in binary form, like <acronym>GPL</acronym>,
-	<varname>ALWAYS_KEEP_DISTFILES</varname> will instruct the
-	&os; build cluster to keep a copy of the files specified in
-	<varname>DISTFILES</varname>.  Users of these ports will
-	generally not need these files, so it is a good idea to only
-	add the source distfiles to <varname>DISTFILES</varname> when
-	<varname>PACKAGE_BUILDING</varname> is defined.</para>
-
-      <example
-	xml:id="ports-master-sites-n-example-always-keep-distfiles">
-
-	<title>Use of
-	  <varname>ALWAYS_KEEP_DISTFILES</varname></title>
-
-	<programlisting>.if defined(PACKAGE_BUILDING)
-DISTFILES+=		<replaceable>foo.tar.gz</replaceable>
-ALWAYS_KEEP_DISTFILES=	yes
-.endif</programlisting>
-      </example>
-
-      <para>When adding extra files to <varname>DISTFILES</varname>,
-	make sure to also add them to <filename>distinfo</filename>.
-	Also, the additional files will normally be extracted into
-	<varname>WRKDIR</varname> as well, which for some ports may
-	lead to undesirable side effects and require special
-	handling.</para>
-    </sect2>
   </sect1>
 
   <sect1 xml:id="makefile-maintainer">


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