On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:54:33PM -0700, Blair Zajac wrote:
> The scala tarball doesn't extract into a new subdirectory and instead
> just extracts into the directory where you run tar, i.e. a tarbomb. So
> in work/, you see a bin/ and a share/ directory.
>
> Is there an easy, clean way to deal with this in MacPorts? I looked at
> specifying some extract options, but I didn't see anything. I tried
> passing the ${distname} to tar -C's option to create the subdirectory,
> but this doesn't work, since the directory to put it in doesn't exist yet.
>
> It looks like another way is to hack it into configure to move the
> directories down a level, but this doesn't seem clean.
>
The netcat port handles this problem with:
pre-extract { system "mkdir -p ${worksrcpath}" }
extract.dir ${worksrcpath}
-eric
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