Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 08:14:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Adam David <adam@veda.is> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nntp dependency Message-ID: <199510060814.IAA11823@veda.is> In-Reply-To: <199510060212.TAA18875@forgery.CS.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Oct 5, 95 07:12:25 pm
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> * Is there an accepted convention for substituting variables such as
> * ${PREFIX} into patchfiles? This port currently has /usr/local
> * hardcoded at a deeper level, and I suspect there are other ports
> * that suffer from the same problem.
>
> The default do-build target will pass down PREFIX in the environment
> so if you can pick it up from there, it will be fine. Just do a
> "CFLAGS += -DPREFIX=${PREFIX}" or something in the Makefile.
>
> Satoshi
Not generic enough. A port might already #define PREFIX for another purpose,
and this would not make substitutions in scripts, only in .c and .h files.
I have seen some of the ports use a magic string to delineate hardcoded
substitutions into source files (using sed for instance). What I am asking
for is a documented convention, a recommended method.
--
Adam David <adam@veda.is>
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