5.13. Specifying the Working Directory

5.13. Specifying the Working Directory
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Each port is extracted in to a working directory, which must be writable. The ports system defaults to having the DISTFILES unpack in to a directory called ${DISTNAME}. In other words, if you have set:

PORTNAME= foo PORTVERSION= 1.0

then the port's distribution files contain a top-level directory, foo-1.0, and the rest of the files are located under that directory.

There are a number of variables you can override if that is not the case.

5.13.1. `WRKSRC`

The variable lists the name of the directory that is created when the application's distfiles are extracted. If our previous example extracted into a directory called foo (and not foo-1.0) you would write:

WRKSRC= ${WRKDIR}/foo

or possibly

WRKSRC= ${WRKDIR}/${PORTNAME}

5.13.2. `NO_WRKSUBDIR`

If the port does not extract in to a subdirectory at all then you should set NO_WRKSUBDIR to indicate that.

NO_WRKSUBDIR= yes

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