From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 11:51:04 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB5851065670 for ; Thu, 22 May 2008 11:51:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: from syn.atarininja.org (syn.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE9CD8FC0A for ; Thu, 22 May 2008 11:51:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wxs@atarininja.org) Received: by syn.atarininja.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AE8F55C17; Thu, 22 May 2008 07:52:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 07:52:57 -0400 From: Wesley Shields To: Marc Spitzer Message-ID: <20080522115257.GF56229@atarininja.org> References: <8c50a3c30805181720w113c309bv62e699c7dadb9253@mail.gmail.com> <20080519013135.GA12308@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <8c50a3c30805211648t42957785ocf87fb2558acb976@mail.gmail.com> <20080522025134.GA3427@shepherd> <8c50a3c30805212003v71fc1f31u22d9a7e407e76fa2@mail.gmail.com> <20080522031357.GB3427@shepherd> <8c50a3c30805212030l4ef7cbd6v3bc8b828c528ad84@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8c50a3c30805212030l4ef7cbd6v3bc8b828c528ad84@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: hier 7 question X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 11:51:05 -0000 On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:30:50PM -0400, Marc Spitzer wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Sahil Tandon wrote: > > * Marc Spitzer [05-21-2008]: > > > >> The configure script does not have a --testdir knob that I can set to > >> ${PREFIX}/libexec/test to install the test programs their, although it > >> does have one for everything else. I can just just do 'mv > >> ${prefix}/test ${prefix}/libexec' to move it over, but that is what I > >> was saying looks very hackish. So I guess my question is what would > >> be the correct way to move a directory tree over with out steping on > >> any preexisting directory there? > > > > Do the files have to be in a 'test' directory? Perhaps you can just copy > > them into libexec/ sans the 'test' dir. > > > > The problem with that is that there is a tree under test/ with over > 200 files/subdirs in it. And I would like to do this cleanly. I do > have a request for a knob in with the developer though. Patch the port to install them in libexec/test/. If you want to install them all manually (if it's a cleaner solution) you can use COPYTREE_BIN. -- WXS