On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:06:51AM +0000, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> WRKSRC is the name of the directory in the build area on a local
> machine where files will get extracted to, and built from.  WRKSRC is
> not a property of the distfile - I would bet that 99% of all of the
> distfiles in pkgsrc have no idea what a "WRKSRC" is.  Rather, WRKSRC
> derives its name from DISTNAME by default, but that is absolutely no
> reason to put WRKSRC beside DISTNAME.

I meant that WRKSRC is a property of the distfile because it is
derived from the internal directory path of the files in the distribution
tarball, prepended by WRKDIR. If the distfile changes, the WRKSRC changes,
usually.

> I really do not want the WRKSRC definition cluttering up the most
> important information at the top of the pkgsrc makefile.

Cluttering up? It's only one line!
 Thomas