Date: Sun, 23 Apr 95 00:28:04 +0100 From: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi) To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: /host/freefall/a/ncvs/ports/lang/forth Makefile Message-ID: <9504222328.AA16072@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> In-Reply-To: <199504222033.NAA24744@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> (asami@cs.berkeley.edu)
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>>>>> "Satoshi" == Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
> * NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
> * Are you crazy guys? This change implies that PREFIX can't be set to
> * anything different from /usr/local. In this case it is even better to
> * remove all references to PREFIX and replace them with /usr/local :-(
> No it's not. All this means that if somebody is going to change
> PREFIX, she just needs to populate it first with empty directories.
> We are assuming that a person who has such a strong preference on
> directory structures knows what she's doing enough to do it herself.
But one may want to install port X in /usr/X, port Y in /usr/Y and
port Z in /usr/local. Your proposal force us to install all ports in
/usr/local or /usr/X11R6.
> Let's face it, the way the ports Makefiles are right now it's
> downright ugly, with all sorts of mkdir's scattered all over the
> place.
You are exagerating :-) they are only in pre-install and in install
targets. And this not ugly - this is beautiful, because I can do
'make PREFIX=/any/where'
> place. And it's not consistent, not even half the Makefiles have
> the necessary mkdir calls. This is confusing at best.
I will say 'half the Makefiles have the necessary mkdir calls'. This is
good. The other half needs to be fixed.
> Unless someone is going to fix all the existing Makefiles to create
> all the necessary directories, with all the CORRECT PERMISSIONS AND
> OWNERSHIPS, we can never go the other way. And I don't think it's
> worth it, 'cause these directories need to be created only once
> anyway. Right now, we are just putting unduly burden on the porters.
Porters must fix their makefiles and create the directories in a
pre-install target if needed. This is not difficult:
make PREFIX=/tmp/XXX
do
rm -rf /tmp/XXX; mkdir /tmp/XXX;
make install PREFIX=/tmp/XXX
edit the makefile
until the install works.
> Satoshi "see, I told you I'm a tyrant :)" Asami
Jean-Marc
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