Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 17:59:41 +0200 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Mike Patterson <mike.patterson@unb.ca> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PREFIX "cleverness" Message-ID: <19DD9455-FCF9-11D8-B720-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <41372013.2070203@unb.ca>
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Mike Patterson wrote:
> I use quotation marks because I'm not certain what I intend to do is
> clever, really, but it would make my life a lot easier.
>
> I'm trying to make ports install themselves to something like
> PREFIX/portname/, so that libtool15's binary would be
> PREFIX/libtool15/bin and its man pages would be PREFIX/libtool15/man,
> etc.
make PREFIX='/usr/local/${PORTNAME}' install
... although it seems to be smarter to use LATEST_LINK instead of the
ports name.
> A quick read through the handbook and bsd.ports.mk imply that there's no
> current way to do it, but perhaps I missed something. I'd be willing to
> try hacking up Mk bits (either for committing or just for myself).
You need to build a link farm from LOCALBASE to the files installed by
your port, since other ports expect them to be there. Another
consequence is that new CONFLICTS checking routines are required.
> Or am I insane for wanting to force ports infrastructure to conform to
> this sort of localism?
Your degree of insanity depends on just what you are trying to
accomplish. If you want to do this `just because it can be done' - yes.
If you believe it will better separate the packing lists of ports -
maybe. If you attempt to pkgsrcify the FreeBSD ports collection - who
knows.
-Oliver
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