#33259: cmake portgroup: out of source build option, possibly by default ---------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: ryandesign@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: | ---------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by ryandesign@…): Replying to [comment:23 mojca@…]:

Setting something like {{{ configure.dir ${workpath}/build/i386 }}} would probably no longer resolve "`../${worksrcdir}`" properly. I believe that using `${worksrcpath}` is safer from that respect.

Yes, you're right. Replying to [comment:24 rjvbertin@…]:

The role of `default` would be to set a default value that is applied when the variable hasn't been set already, no? That was how I saw its use in any case,

Yes, that's correct. It sets a default, which ports can still override if needed. Notably, if you write `default someoption {somevalue}`, then it does not matter if the portfile sets someoption to another value before or after including the portgroup; it'll work either way (the portfile's value will be used and the default will not). Whereas if you wrote `someoption somevalue` in a portgroup, if a portfile set the value before including the portgroup, the portgroup's value would override the portfile's.

I guess I should have stated that the OOT had to be set before including the port group (did you test that?).

Portgroups should not be written to require that. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/33259#comment:25> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X