Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:30:24 +0400 From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: DATADIR question Message-ID: <20071015163024.GA55552@hades.panopticon>
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Hi!
I'm porting silvertree game (from creators of wesnoth), and I have
some issues with it's DATADIR.
The problem is that port is named silvertree, but it installs data under
${PREFIX}/share/silvertree-rpg. What do I do with DATADIR in this case?
1. Rename the port:
Not a best solution, as I'll have to introduce additional variables like
DISTNAME, which are overwise correct with their default values. Also,
this -rpg suffix may change in future.
2. Leave it as it is:
* Will install data to ${PREFIX}/share/silvertree-rpg
* Plist: share/silvertree-rpg/somefile
* portlint complaints, DATADIR is not used at all
3. Force configure to use DATADIR with adding --datadir to
CONFIGURE_ARGS
* Will install data to ${PREFIX}/share/silvertree/silvertree-rpg
* Plist: %%DATADIR%%/silvertree-rpg/somefile
4. Change DATADIR in port
* Will install data to ${PREFIX}/share/silvertree-rpg
* Plist: %%DATADIR%%/somefile
* DATADIR=${PREFIX}/share/silvertree-rpg
I think the correct way is 3 or 4, but I didn't find enough data on
DATADIR meaning: should it be user-changeable (i.e. user can install a
port without touching PREFIX but changing DATADIR), or is more like a
shortcut to sync port's Makefile and plist, so port could change it to
actual value and plist should only use %%DATADIR%%?
Seems that DATADIR user-changeable is not the case, as it's not even
passed to configure by default. So correct way is more like #4, am I
right?
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