Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:06:49 -0800
From:      Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com>
To:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, Freebsd Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Making a port that installs only an RC script provided in FILESDIR
Message-ID:  <dba9eae8-22de-4e76-3c60-b512b1457ceb@bluerosetech.com>
In-Reply-To: <5A0DE461.6020301@quip.cz>
References:  <56dd26c5-1daf-be8c-f499-0375f7fb3524@bluerosetech.com> <5A0DE461.6020301@quip.cz>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help


On 11/16/2017 11:17, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Mel Pilgrim wrote on 2017/11/16 19:30:
>> I have a port that has exactly one file: an RC script provided in the
>> FILESDIR of the skeleton itself.  I can't use metaport because I do have
>> to install a file.
>>
>> I've had no luck finding anything that explains how to do this, and am
>> meeting no end of errors when I test the port.
> 
> If you have files/my_port.in
> 
> then you need this in your Makefile
> 
> USE_RC_SUBR= my_port

Already had that.  The port needed extra settings so that make didn't 
try to fetch anything and stage didn't try to look for WRKSRC.  The part 
I was missing was (quite unintuitively) setting NO_INSTALL=yes on a port 
that will install files.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?dba9eae8-22de-4e76-3c60-b512b1457ceb>