Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 16:37:58 -0500 From: Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports projects Message-ID: <20000502163758.D88844@lovett.com> In-Reply-To: <200005021212.FAA46737@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from asami@freebsd.org on Tue, May 02, 2000 at 05:12:53AM -0700 References: <200005021212.FAA46737@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 05:12:53AM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> @ PREFIX-cleanness (status: (slowly) in progress)
> There are PREFIX-clean fixes committed every day, but I'd like to
> make a master list to help people identify which ports are
> culprits.
Ok. #1 is GNOME. #2 is KDE. But let me expand.
(1) GNOME expects everything to be rooted in one place, be it
/usr, /usr/local, /usr/X11R6, /opt/gnome, /dev/null..
There are an increasing number of ports that have GNOME
support, sometimes optionally. Whilst each individual
GNOME component is PREFIX-safe, they all have to be
installed in the same place to work correctly
(desktop integration, CORBA mechanics, etc..)
(2) KDE seems to be a little worse although the last time I built
anything KDE-related was a month or so ago, so usual disclaimers
apply.
KDE applications, by and large, seem to come with a configure
script that blindly assumes that "KDE headers and libraries"
are located in the same place (via --prefix=${PREFIX}) as
where the port is going to end up.
Thus, I can't do an 'env PREFIX=/port/build make' on a KDE
application unless the configure script is patched to look
in the 'right' place (which may not be ${PREFIX}) for the
headers and libraries.
@ Another (related) issue is where these two megaliths install
themselves, especially when the location of the base has so
many ramifications for other ports.
Should it be /usr/local or /usr/X11R6?
Are these two prefixes enough any more?
If we root GNOME applications under /usr/X11R6/gnome/*
(using the extremely iffy precedent of Lesstif), how do we
handle cases where a port may or may not depend on GNOME
(and possibly require a different prefix).
-aDe
--
Ade Lovett, Austin, TX.
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