Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 13:34:15 +0200 From: Espen Skoglund <esk@ira.uka.de> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Espen Skoglund <esk@ira.uka.de>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WANT_GNOME gives unwanted CONFIGURE_ARGS Message-ID: <15260.42295.551022.514991@i30nb2.ira.uka.de> In-Reply-To: <20010909184921.A73454@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <15257.4977.549494.312541@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20010909184921.A73454@mithrandr.moria.org>
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[Neil Blakey-Milner]
> On Fri 2001-09-07 (20:35), Espen Skoglund wrote:
>> I was just looking at ports/30414, and it seems there are some
>> unexpected (at least for me) results of defining WANT_GNOME in the
>> port's Makefile. I would expect bsd.gnome.mk to include a proper
>> --datadir switch to the configure script, but
>>
>> .if !defined(HAVE_GNOME) && ...
>> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--datadir=${PREFIX}/share/gnome
>> .endif
>>
>> on line 287 ensures that this does not happen because WANT_GNOME
>> will (potentially) define HAVE_GNOME=yes. Have I missed something
>> here?
> bsd.gnome.mk has:
> # Ports which optionally depend on GNOME can add '--datadir=${PREFIX}/share'
> # to CONFIGURE_ARGS before including <bsd.port.post.mk> if they do not wish
> # to install their data files in /usr/X11R6/share/gnome. Please be aware
> # that you will need to make non standard patches to get the rest of the
> # files into the correct places. Specifically, the help files and pixmaps
> # must still go into /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/help and
> # /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/pixmaps respectively. %%DATADIR%% will still be
> # defined for you to use.
But I *do* want to install the data files in /usr/X11R6/share/gnome.
That's what DATADIR is set to, and that's what I expect CONFIGURE_ARGS
to contain. Do I really have to set datadir even when I want the
files to go into the default gnome location?
eSk
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