Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 04:30:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/41994: New Port: x11-fonts/artwiz-fonts Message-ID: <200208251130.g7PBU3Ds061100@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/41994; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com>
To: Alan E <alane@geeksrus.net>
Cc: FreeBSD Bugs <freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: ports/41994: New Port: x11-fonts/artwiz-fonts
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 12:22:42 +0100
On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 06:45:33AM -0400, Alan E wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 10:54:58AM +0100, Dominic Marks wrote:
>
> > shar artwiz-fonts/* artwiz-fonts/files/* > artwiz-fonts.shar
>
> What you really want is:
>
> shar $(find artwiz-fonts) >artwiz-fonts.shar
Okay.
> I also had to make some changes regarding installation and the
> pkg-message file.
>
> You should use ${INSTALL_DATA}, not ${CP} to install the font files.
Yeah, thats sloppiness on my part, I've known about INSTALL_* for some
time.
> Also, you can't write outside of ${WRKDIR}. What if the user has the
> ports dir NFS mounted read-only (like on the build clusters)?
>
> So you have to go through some clumsy crap to modify pkg-message:
>
>
> PKGMESSAGE= ${WRKDIR}/pkg-message
>
> [then later]
>
> .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
>
> post-install:
> @${SED} 's|$${X11BASE}|${X11BASE}|g' \
> ${PKGDIR}/pkg-message >${PKGMESSAGE}
> @${CAT} ${PKGMESSAGE}
>
> .include <bsd.port.post.mk>
>
> [isn't that fun and intuitive?]
Hah. Very.
> The reason that's so weird is that you have to get X11BASE and PKGDIR
> defined before you can do the sed, but bsd.port.mk checks for the
> existence (using .if exists) of PKGMESSAGE in the post section or else
> if won't include it in the package. Hence the PITA.
>
> I also cleaned up all the portlint warnings that were cleanable.
Cheers!
> --
> AlanE
> KDE-FreeBSD Team (http://freebsd.kde.org/)
--
Dominic
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