Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:43:41 +0200 From: Vasil Dimov <vd@FreeBSD.org> To: Anders Troback <freebsd@troback.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PREFIX problems... Message-ID: <20060213064341.GA41133@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> In-Reply-To: <20060210201507.7855ce69@devil.troback.com> References: <20060210124509.69332182@server25.gelita.swe> <20060210122601.GA64449@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> <20060210140902.2d64db73@server25.gelita.swe> <20060210133808.GB65207@qlovarnika.bg.datamax> <20060210201507.7855ce69@devil.troback.com>
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 08:15:07PM +0100, Anders Troback wrote:
>
> I did this with LOCALBASE as you told me and the port installs just
> fine but now I have lots of empty folders:
>
> /usr/local/bigsister/libdata
> /usr/local/bigsister/include
> /usr/local/bigsister/libexec
> etc.
>
> do you know know where the are coming from and/or how I cope with them?
>
Maybe you are looking for NO_MTREE=yes (bsd.port.mk is your friend)
By the way I discussed that issue with some people and it showed that
PREFIX?=${LOCALBASE}/bigsister has some disadvantages like that if one
types ``make PREFIX=/home/joe'' for example, then the port will not be
installed in its own bigsister/ subdirectory (as it does by default) and
/home/joe will get populated with all the bigsister stuff.
Using CONFIGURE_ARGS=--prefix=${PREFIX}/bigsister has also some
disadvantages like that if one types ``make PREFIX=/home/joe'' one
would expect executables to be placed in /home/joe/bin/ rather than
/home/joe/bigsister/bin/
You see - both methods have some disadvantages. The perfect solution
would be to patch bigsister to be hier(7) compatible - e.g. not to
install *.pm files in bin/, install documentation in ${DOCSDIR}, man
pages in ${MANPREFIX}, miscellaneous data in ${DATADIR} and
configuration stuff in ${PREFIX}/etc/ or ${PREFIX}/etc/bigsister.
Happy hacking ;-)
- --
Vasil Dimov
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