Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 15:22:42 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Cc@FreeBSD.ORG:Marcin Cieslak <saper@system.pl>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gif2png: 'optional' dependencies Message-ID: <19991031152242.B23583@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910261303450.29073-100000@picnic.mat.net>; from chuckr@picnic.mat.net on Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 01:08:55PM -0400 References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910261842380.16153-100000@tricord.system.pl> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910261303450.29073-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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> This is done by a lot of ports. Use a patch to change that line to
> something easily replaced, like %%PREFIX%%/bin, and then use
> a pre-install target to sed that:
>
> pre-install:
> $(SED) -e "s/%%PREFIX%%/$(PREFIX)/" < infile >outfile
A much cleaner way is:
${PERL} -pi.orig -e "s:/usr/bin/python:${PREFIX}/bin/python:" \
/path_to_file_to_change
as one does not need to patch the file 1st and one does not need to mv
the file to a temperary name before using sed (since sed cannot do
in-place editing).
--
-- David (obrien@NUXI.com)
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