Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:50:05 -0700 From: Brad Huntting <huntting@glarp.com> To: John E Hein <jhein@timing.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports & DESTDIR (was: STLPORT and gcc3 (openoffice porting)) Message-ID: <200203182150.g2ILo5s60026@hunkular.glarp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:21:21 MST." <15510.8721.546546.172867@brain.timing.com>
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> bsd.ports.mk uses DESTDIR differently (wrongly IMO) than FreeBSD's
> buildworld or the rest of the world as far as I have seen. See (and
> lobby for) ports/28155. Unfortunately, the fix in 28155 will make
> DESTDIR behave the "right" way, and thus anyone expecting the "wrong"
> behavior will be surprised. OTOH, any ports using DESTDIR will do the
> wrong thing now anyway in many cases (see the How-To-Repeat in PR 28155).
Along these lines, we have a rather twisted setup at our shop. We
put 3d party software such as ports in directories with pathnames
like:
/nfs/i386+OpenBSD2/teTeX-1.0.7/{bin/,etc/,share/,...}
Using symlinks (and amd) it appears to the users as if it were
/nfs/teTeX -> teTeX-1.0.7
/nfs/teTeX-1.0.7/{bin/,etc/,share/,...}
Since these are mounted read-only, we have to install the port in
another directory e.g:
/mnt/foo/nfs/teTeX-1.0.7/
In a perfect world this would just mean using
DESTDIR=/mnt/foo
PREFIX=/nfs/teTeX-1.0.7
But, this will cause the port to look for all it's _dependencies_
in /nfs/teTeX-1.0.7 when they are really in /nfs/some-port-name.
It is ugly, but we have such a large environment that we usually
have to keep different versions of the same software online for
different users on the same machine.
Is there any way to specify a different PREFIX for each port+version?
<queue the rotten vegetables>
brad
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