Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 07:44:58 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: not installing under PREFIX Message-ID: <20030715144458.GA10979@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20030715112430.39e9a64c.Alexander@Leidinger.net> References: <20030714201655.GA880@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20030715112430.39e9a64c.Alexander@Leidinger.net>
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:24:30AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:16:55 -0700
> Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
>=20
> > when it is run. My port currently installs with SGE_ROOT equal to
> > ${PREFIX}/sge which should be fine for most people, but I'd like to
> > support installation at an arbitrary location. Is there a reasionable
> > way to do that? The only real issue seems to be with the plist. I
>=20
> Use PLIST_SUB (it's used in many ports, so you should find enough
> examples).
I tried that, but I couldn't figure out what to sub. Unless I'm missing
something, ${PREFIX} still gets prepended to lines containing absolute
paths.
> IMHO it isn't necessary to allow this, we have a lot of ports which
> behave like this and don't offer this functionality (and so far: nobody
> complained).
I'm starting to lean in that direction. I was just hoping there was an
easy way to provide this functionality.
Thanks,
Brooks
--=20
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