From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 21:40:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C981065694 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:40:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622158FC1F for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:40:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91D031A000B21 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:15:27 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at smtp.sd73.bc.ca Received: from coal.localnet (unknown [192.168.0.10]) by smtp.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBB161A000B18 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:15:24 -0800 (PST) From: Freddie Cash To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:15:24 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.26-1-686; KDE/4.1.3; i686; ; ) References: <539c60b90901191200n66f37c76k749ebbb829378cb9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90901191200n66f37c76k749ebbb829378cb9@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901191315.24807.fjwcash@gmail.com> Subject: Re: how to install a port without install: in the Makefile X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:40:52 -0000 On January 19, 2009 12:00 pm Steve Franks wrote: > I got me a port that just builds a single executable. What's the > proper way to set up the port makefile to copy that to /usr/local/bin? Add a do-install: section to the port Makefile, and put in the $INSTALL line(s) as needed to copy the executable from $WORKDIR to $LOCALBASE/bin -- Freddie fjwcash@gmail.com