Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:18:32 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using HAS_CONFIGURE to enforce PREFIX Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012151412280.58776-100000@mothra.ecs.csus.edu> In-Reply-To: <3A3A81E5.6F4A86F@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
# Joseph Scott wrote:
#
# > I've been updating a couple of ports and noticed something. Both
# > of these ports use configure, but weren't honoring PREFIX. After looking
# > through bsd.port.mk I came across HAS_CONFIGURE, who as a default of
# > adding --prefix=${PREFIX} to the configure args. This made both of the
# > ports in question correctly install into PREFIX instead of /usr/local.
# >
# > Is this the right way to enforce PREFIX with configure'd ports?
#
# No, you are wrong. Unlike GNU_CONFIGURE, which assumes certain semantics of
# configure scripts and therefore provides certain default command line arguments
# for it, HAS_CONFIGURE is just plain hack to call a ${WRKSRC}/configure (it can
# be anything from pre-compiled executable to the weird shell script) w/o any
# additional arguments. Hovewer, you can add necessary flags into the appropriate
# ports using CONFIGURE_ARGS make(1) variable.
Ahhh, HAS_CONFIGURE is much more generic then. I'm trying the
follow all of the implies in bsd.port.mk in hopes that --prefix=${PREFIX}
ends up in there. That doesn't seem to be the case.
This begs the question, why doesn't GNU_CONFIGURE have a default
arg of --prefix=${PREFIX} for gnu configure scripts? I guess this assumes
that it will always understand --prefix use. Otherwise all ports that
have GNU_CONFIGURE will also need CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --prefix=${PREFIX} yes?
If I'm way off base in here simply invoke the pointy hat.
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