Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 12:20:11 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/local/share/mk ? Message-ID: <20070201122011.B84181@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20070201194417.GA73296@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:44:17PM -0500 References: <20070201111727.B83474@xorpc.icir.org> <20070201192051.GA72926@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070201113720.D83474@xorpc.icir.org> <20070201194417.GA73296@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:37:20AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
...
> > Now, this may well be a one-of-a-kind case calling for an ad-hoc
> > solution, but if all we need is accept to use ${PREFIX}/share/mk
> > for third-party .mk files, this seems a better way to handle
> > the problem.
>
> After >10 years you are apparently the first person to want such a
> feature, so this suggests the application is limited :)
possibly, yes. Or maybe there were other applications solved with
other hacks - e.g. (randomly browsing in /usr/share/mk), do the
following really belong there:
bsd.info.mk - building GNU Info hypertext system
bsd.snmpmod.mk - building modules for the SNMP daemon bsnmpd
They don't seem to be a part of the 'base' system unlike all
the others.
In a sense this is also related to my other question on a
'recursive install' command. We don't have one, but then there
are several ports with a huge number of 'INSTALL' calls in them:
./graphics/libx3dtk/Makefile : 464 YUCK!!!
./irc/psybnc/Makefile : 252
./editors/setedit/Makefile : 79
./www/ssserver/Makefile : 59
./games/macopix/Makefile : 43
./x11-toolkits/open-motif/Makefile : 34
./www/awstats/Makefile : 29
./www/validator/Makefile : 28
./mail/mailscanner/Makefile : 28
./ftp/bsdftpd-ssl/Makefile : 28
...
There are 262 entries with 10 or more 'INSTALL' in them;
several use tricks like this
.for f in dot.mosaic-hotlist-default
@${INSTALL_DATA} ${FILESDIR}/${f} ${SAMPLEDIR}
.endfor
So... there is not a recursive INSTALL, maybe nobody asked for it,
but certainly we have a lot of replicated constructs in the
ports' makefiles, and some port maintainers with a lot of patience :)
cheers
luigi
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