Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 07:40:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/30380: Maintainer update: devel/gengetopt (2.4) Message-ID: <200109101440.f8AEe1654307@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/30380; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Subject: Re: ports/30380: Maintainer update: devel/gengetopt (2.4)
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 17:35:15 +0300
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:26:27PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> On Fri 2001-09-07 (08:10), Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > The following reply was made to PR ports/30380; it has been noted by GNATS.
> >
> > From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
> > To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
> > Cc:
> > Subject: Re: ports/30380: Maintainer update: devel/gengetopt (2.4)
> > Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 18:03:30 +0300
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:00:07AM -0700, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:20:38PM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> > > > Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:40:03AM -0700, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> > > > > > The following reply was made to PR ports/30380; it has been noted by GNATS.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > could you also add the following line below USE_GMAKE,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > MAKE_ARGS= prefix=${PREFIX}
> > > > >
> > > > > Does this really need to be in MAKE_ARGS? Does it not rather belong
> > > > > in MAKE_ENV?
> > > >
> > > > no, using gmake, this doesn't work using MAKE_ENV. MAKE_ARGS does.
> > > >
> > > > in fact, this hack allow you to build things for one destination and
> > > > to install them somewhere else (for installation tests for exemple).
> > > > I'll propose to make USE_GMAKE a dependency of GNU_CONFIGURE as well
> > > > as MAKE_ARGS+= prefix=${PREFIX} to make things working better...
> > >
> > > OBTW, I don't think building things for one destination and isntalling
> > > them into another is supported by the ports system. Even if it were,
> > > most automake-generated Makefiles have more than one variable for
> > > a destination dir location, not just 'prefix'.
> >
> > Of course, this applies to most auto*conf*-generated Makefiles,
> > not just for automake.
>
> autoconf+automake (and others) systems support --prefix for setting the
> prefix, and listen to the DESTDIR make variable as a base to install to.
> There's a PR to support this properly (28155), and we'll be looking into
> it after 4.4 is released.
This is all well and good; in the meantime, I think the MAKE_ARGS
addition in this PR (and in a couple of other PR's filed by Cyrille)
is quite unnecessary. The FreeBSD Ports Collection does not take it
upon itself to make it possible for a port to be built and installed
with different values for PREFIX; that's what the 'configure' step
is for.
Apart from the slew of variables that also need to be modified that
I discussed in my previous mails, there's one more argument: there are
programs that stuff some paths into their source; what do you do with
those in the 'install' target - detect that you are running with
a different PREFIX, and recompile? Yuck.. Again, that's what
the 'configure' step is for..
G'luck,
Peter
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