build Xorg with read-only source tree

Jeremy C. Reed reed at reedmedia.net
Wed Mar 15 23:21:55 PST 2006


On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Donnie Berkholz wrote:

> > +    if test x"$WRKDIR" = x; then
> 
> Is there some good reason to omit a single vowel?

Took me a while to figure out what was wrong with the code :)

I spelled WRKDIR by habit (because pkgsrc package build systems uses it 
abbreviated and I have read or typed it thousands of times). I have 
spelled out WORKDIR.

I recall now the related discussion about abbreviations for X11 components 
-- use spelled-out names for new and only use abbreviations for historical 
uses.

 Jeremy C. Reed

echo ':6DB6=88>?;@69876tA=AC8BB5tA6487><' | tr '4-F' 'wu rofIn.lkigemca'



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