Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 21:47:10 +0200 From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <netchild@freebsd.org>, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports CHANGES UPDATING ports/Mk bsd.port.mk ports/accessibility/linux-atk Makefile pkg-plist ports/archivers/stuffit Makefile ports/astro/linux-setiathome Makefile ports/audio/baudline Makefile ports/audio/linux-arts ... Message-ID: <200506282147.11112.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> In-Reply-To: <20050628183210.GC92486@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <200506172259.j5HMxTad068378@repoman.freebsd.org> <200506281352.06008.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <20050628183210.GC92486@dragon.NUXI.org>
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On Tuesday 28 of June 2005 20:32, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:52:05PM +0200, Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> > On Monday 27 of June 2005 19:01, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 07:24:20PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > > > On Saturday, 18. June 2005 00:59, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > > > > - Use the correct prefix (X11- instead of LOCAL- or LINUX-) for
> > > > > some ports. Chase dependencies for this.
> > > >
> > > > I know I'm late to the party, but I'm really wondering what that is
> > > > meant to accomplish.
> > > >
> > > > X_PREFIX is *not* the 'correct' prefix for *anything* but the X11
> > > > distribution
> > >
> > > Not quite. Anything that uses Imake will also be installed in
> > > X_PREFIX. If that's not what we desire, we should fix
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/config.
> >
> > Or Imakefiles of those ports can be changed. Or parameters passed to
> > imake can be changed. I'd prefer that to actually modifying imake
> > configuration if possible and if modifying imake-using ports wouldn't
> > turn out too complicating.
>
> No the philisphy behind Imake is that a package doens't have to know
> site-specific policy - it is suppose to be encoded in the site-specific
> Imake configuration.
Yes, but in this case a port that does not override imake cf defaults expects
to be installed in same place as X11 - basically under ProjectRoot as defined
by imake configuration (as imake specifies prefix for it).
DESTDIR for example is respected by imake and ports can set it (like for
example astro/sunclock does). Furthermore BINDIR, MANDIR and such are also
respected by Makefiles that imake generates so they can be simply overridden
by MAKE_FLAGS.
The point is that we are actually overriding default prefix of something when
it is converted to port. The same way --prefix=${PREFIX} is added to
CONFIGURE_ARGS for GNU_CONFIGURE case so I believe it would be consistent to
do it this way.
> What is wrong with installing proper site configuration files?
Mostly that this would also change default prefix for Xorg/XFree so they would
also install under that different prefix (unless of course we'd build X with
either custom imake config files or with custom flags). Which would actually
be good if eventually it is decided to have a common prefix for all ports
(like, say, pkgsrc with /usr/pkg). Perhaps that wouldn't be such a bad
idea...
Perhaps I'm just overcomplicating. Did you have some specific imake config
change in mind?
Dejan
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