Re: {tech-pkg} Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk

[Brian de Alwis <bsd%cs.ubc.ca@localhost>]

On 21-Aug-2008, at 9:55 PM, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> On the contrary - trying to figure out what happened in the build
> is a perfectly good reason for wanting an easy way to get to the
> work directory. This is especially important if some extra help
> is needed. Shell completion doesn't work too well when there is no
> symbolic link.

Count me in the no-wrkdir-symlink camp.

I find that an alias like the following is as good as shell completion:

        alias cdobj='pushd `make show-var VARNAME=WRKSRC`'

The only time I miss the wrkdir-symlink is when moving new patches  
from mkpatches into place.

Brian.

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