ah ok.  actually in my case patch-${MACHINE_ARCH}-xx, but i can do this.

-Dan



On Tue, 8 May 2001, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Tue, 8 May 2001 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> 
> > > > (patches.i386/patch-aa) SHA1 ......
> > > > (patches.sparc/patch-aa) SHA1 ......
> > >
> > > Multiple "patches" directories, in order to make "distinfo" work?
> > > That's... ironic.
> >
> > actually its multiple "patches" directories in order to make 'make patch'
> > work and then the problem is what to do with the different possible
> > "patches" directories for the distinfo file, hence the suggestion that we
> > specify exactly which patch is the one in question.
> >
> > I'm more than open to other solutions though.
> 
> How about, name them all something that matches "patch-*", like
> patch-common-aa, patch-netbsd-ba, patch-solaris-ca, and so on. With
> that, the "makepatchsum" target will just work, and it'll work right,
> in that the names in "distinfo" will match the actual, committed names
> of the files. Select the patches to apply similarly to the way
> security/openssl does it (but better)...
> 
> .if !target(mps) && !target(makepatchsum) && !target (mdi) || !target(makedistinfo)
> PATCHDIR=	${WRKDIR}/.patches
> .endif
> 
> pre-patch:
>         ${MKDIR} ${WRKDIR}/.patches
>         @${CP} ${.CURDIR}/patches/patch-common-* ${WRKDIR}/.patches/
> .if ${OPSYS} == "NetBSD"
>         @${CP} ${.CURDIR}/patches/patch-${OPSYS}-* ${WRKDIR}/.patches/
> .endif
> 
> For the "patch" target, like the "makepatchsum" target, you don't even
> need to trim "-common-" or "-${OPSYS}-" from the filenames (because
> they match "patch-*")!
> 
> 
> Frederick
>