Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 07:59:35 -0400 (EDT) From: James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: review request: INSTALL_* aliases in bsd.port.mk Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960812075751.20581A-100000@bdd.net> In-Reply-To: <199608121005.DAA02891@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> I noticed that there are a lot of cp commands in the *-install targets
> in ports' Makefiles. What do you guys think about adding these to
> bsd.port.mk so that we can just say
>
> do-install:
> ${INSTALL_PROGRAM} ${WRKSRC}/coolprog ${PREFIX}/bin
> ${INSTALL_MAN} ${WRKSRC}/coolprog.1 ${PREFIX}/man/man1
> .if !defined(NOMANCOMPRESS)
> :
>
> instead of the long-but-correct alternatives, and, um, the bazillion
> may-be-short-but-incorrect alternatives?
I'm all for it. Anything to make ports gracefully go from one revision to
the next is a good thing.
--
j.
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