From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 3 07:49:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4271816A4CE for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 07:49:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from williams.cscf.uwaterloo.ca (williams.cscf.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.15.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C47A43D2D for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 07:49:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mpatters@williams.cscf.uwaterloo.ca) Received: from mpatters by williams.cscf with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C2bbF-0002sO-Oi for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:20:57 -0400 From: Mike Patterson To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094070057.10169.108.camel@williams.cscf.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:20:57 -0400 Sender: Mike Patterson Subject: PREFIX "cleverness" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 07:49:25 -0000 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. 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). Or am I insane for wanting to force ports infrastructure to conform to this sort of localism? Mike