Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 02:29:48 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Matt Dawson <matt@chronos.org.uk>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port Makefiles and the MANPREFIX macro Message-ID: <20060915062948.GA93166@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060915062514.GA89551@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060914120055.2F90616A64E@hub.freebsd.org> <200609150722.15348.matt@chronos.org.uk> <20060915062514.GA89551@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:25:14AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 07:22:15AM +0100, Matt Dawson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Currently doing battle with some port updates and I have come across a=
=20
> > strange problem. It's probably my fault, but some guidance would be=20
> > appreciated.
> >=20
> > Three of the ports I maintain have decided that the man pages belong in=
=20
> > ${PREFIX}/share/man/man(n). Now, reading the Porter's Handbook, it appe=
ars=20
> > this is exactly what the MAN[n]PREFIX macro is for, and sure enough aft=
er=20
> > removing the man page from pkg-plist and telling the Makefile about it,=
the=20
> > ports system compresses the resultant man page in its new location. So =
far so=20
> > good.
> >=20
> > However, on deinstall, if appeand two lots of ${PREFIX} when trying to =
remove=20
> > the man page. For example, grig installs a man page=20
> > to /usr/local/share/man/man1/grig.1 (for a ${PREFIX} of /usr/local). Th=
e=20
> > deinstall routine trys to delete grig.1.gz=20
> > from /usr/local/share//usr/local/share/man/man1, which is just a little=
=20
> > crazy. Note the two slashes between the two iterations of the MANPREFIX.
> >=20
> > Any clues, folks? I'd like to get these updates in before the ports tre=
e is=20
> > frozen for 6.2 if at all possible.
>=20
> Don't include MANPREFIX=3D${PREFIX}... since it's apparently being used
> as ${PREFIX}${MANPREFIX}; you could confirm this by reading
> bsd.port.mk.
Actually this appears to be incorrect, I'm not sure what is the cause.
Kris
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