Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 16:29:18 +0300 (EEST) From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> To: esk@ira.uka.de (Espen Skoglund) Cc: nbm@mithrandr.moria.org (Neil Blakey-Milner), esk@ira.uka.de (Espen Skoglund), ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WANT_GNOME gives unwanted CONFIGURE_ARGS Message-ID: <200109101330.f8ADUJZ35911@vega.vega.com> In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "Espen Skoglund" at Sep 10, 2001 01:34:15 PM
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> [Neil Blakey-Milner]
> > On Fri 2001-09-07 (20:35), Espen Skoglund wrote:
> >> I was just looking at ports/30414, and it seems there are some
> >> unexpected (at least for me) results of defining WANT_GNOME in the
> >> port's Makefile. I would expect bsd.gnome.mk to include a proper
> >> --datadir switch to the configure script, but
> >>
> >> .if !defined(HAVE_GNOME) && ...
> >> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--datadir=${PREFIX}/share/gnome
> >> .endif
> >>
> >> on line 287 ensures that this does not happen because WANT_GNOME
> >> will (potentially) define HAVE_GNOME=yes. Have I missed something
> >> here?
>
> > bsd.gnome.mk has:
>
> > # Ports which optionally depend on GNOME can add '--datadir=${PREFIX}/share'
> > # to CONFIGURE_ARGS before including <bsd.port.post.mk> if they do not wish
> > # to install their data files in /usr/X11R6/share/gnome. Please be aware
> > # that you will need to make non standard patches to get the rest of the
> > # files into the correct places. Specifically, the help files and pixmaps
> > # must still go into /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/help and
> > # /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/pixmaps respectively. %%DATADIR%% will still be
> > # defined for you to use.
>
> But I *do* want to install the data files in /usr/X11R6/share/gnome.
> That's what DATADIR is set to, and that's what I expect CONFIGURE_ARGS
> to contain. Do I really have to set datadir even when I want the
> files to go into the default gnome location?
For ports with optional GNOME dependency you have to include the following
into the Makefile:
[...]
WANT_GNOME= yes
[...]
.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
.if defined(HAVE_GNOME)
USE_GNOME= yes
.endif
[...]
.include <bsd.port.post.mk>
-Maxim
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