Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2023 18:15:58 -0400 From: Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> To: David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Developers <developers@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Correct install locations for things using the base system make infrastructure Message-ID: <ZOaFHiKfVE0PYbMH@nuc> In-Reply-To: <0899EA72-830E-453E-BAE4-127368FC248C@FreeBSD.org> References: <0899EA72-830E-453E-BAE4-127368FC248C@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 10:04:45PM +0100, David Chisnall wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I’ve been fighting this for over an hour and I presume someone else has done it in the past. If something is built using the BSD bsd.prog.mk build goo, what do I need to do in the ports infrastructure to make sure that BINDIR and MANDIR are set, to make it install things in the right places?
>
> So far, every invocation I’ve tried has made things differently wrong and the porters handbook is completely silent on the case of bmake. Any help gratefully received!
ftp/netdumpd does this. The recipe seems to be:
MAKE_ARGS+=BINDIR=${PREFIX}/bin
etc.
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