Jeremy C. Reed said the following on 8/3/2007 10:06 PM:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Mehul N. Sanghvi wrote:
> 
>> 'allo,
>>
>>     What would be the quickest way to build all Perl module in pkgsrc/net and
>> pkgsrc/www without building each one manually ?
> 
> I didn't test this much but this got me somewhere so you can make a 
> Makefile:
> 
> ls -d www/p5-* net/p5-* | while read line ; do echo HERE $line ; test -d 
> $line && cd $line && make show-var VARNAME=PKGNAME && cd - ; done | tee ~/abc
> 
> cat ~/abc | egrep 'HERE|[0-9]' | sed 's,HERE ,,' | while read line ; do 
> read line2 ; line3=`echo $line2 | sed 's,^\(.*\)-[0-9].*$,\1,'` ; echo 
> DEPENDS+=${line3}"-*":../../${line} ; done
> 
> 
>   Jeremy C. Reed
> 


Jeremy & Steven,

           Thanks for the ideas.  I was already thinking in terms of the for 
loop that Steven mentioned, but I like the the Makefile based solution that 
Jeremy's shown as well.


cheers,

     mehul


-- 
Mehul N. Sanghvi
email: mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com