Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:51:37 -0500 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: palm/pilot-link and hier(7) Message-ID: <20000713105137.E2679@FreeBSD.org>
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As some of you may be aware, palm/pilot-link is one of those
horrible little ports that doesn't respect hier(7), and installs
everything under ${LOCALBASE}/pilot/{bin,include,lib,...}
Normally, I wouldn't mind so much, only I've come across a subtle
problem.
1. install pilot-link.. ldconfig gets carried out on
${LOCALBASE}/pilot/lib so the shared libraries are available
2. build a port that depends on the shared library above.
It will work.
3. reboot the machine. re-perform step 2. It will try and
install pilot-link again, because it can't find the
shared library, because it's not in the standard pathname
list.
Now, I can think of a few ways around this:
(a) fix pilot-link to respect hier(7) and install in
bin, include/pilot-link, lib, share/pilot-link etc...
This is my preferred solution, I'm prepared to do the
hackery, and at least get the gnomepilot ports hacked about
to work with the proper set up, though others will need to
work on the other ports.
(b) have a post-install target on pilot-link install a bunch
of symlinks from /usr/local/pilot/lib/lib* to /usr/local/lib
This is what lesstif does, and is horrible (IMO).
(c) Do nothing. Ok, I lied, this won't fix things. :)
Thoughts? Comments?
-aDe
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Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. ade@FreeBSD.org
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