On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Johnny C. Lam wrote:

> And then at the top level pkgsrc directory, add a Makefile.inc that
> looks like:
>
> 	# Calculate depth
> 	.if !defined(_PKGSRC_TOPDIR)
> 	.  if exists(${.CURDIR}/../../../../mk/bsd.pkg.mk)
> 	_PKGSRC_TOPDIR=	${.CURDIR}/../../../..
> 	.  elif exists(${.CURDIR}/../../../mk/bsd.pkg.mk)
> 	_PKGSRC_TOPDIR=	${.CURDIR}/../../..
> 	.  elif exists(${.CURDIR}/../../mk/bsd.pkg.mk)
> 	_PKGSRC_TOPDIR=	${.CURDIR}/../..
> 	.  elif exists(${.CURDIR}/../mk/bsd.pkg.mk)
> 	_PKGSRC_TOPDIR=	${.CURDIR}/..
> 	.  elif exists(${.CURDIR}/mk/bsd.pkg.mk)
> 	_PKGSRC_TOPDIR=	${.CURDIR}
> 	.  endif
> 	.endif
>
> 	.if !defined(PKGSRCDIR)
> 	PKGSRCDIR!=	cd ${_PKGSRC_TOPDIR} && pwd
> 	.endif

If you're going to do this, wouldn't it be better to reverse the order of 
these tests?

I could have a pkgsrc tree ~/pkgsrc, and another directory ~/mk containing 
a file called bsd.pkg.mk, which would incorrectly cause _PKGSRC_TOPDIR to 
be set to ~ instead of ~/pkgsrc.

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